1-2. How some things wey we know for Bible fit dey more important to us when some things change for our life?

 MANY times, when man and woman marry them de listen to marriage talk from Bible. No be the first time wey the man and the woman go hear the things wey they go talk about for the talk. But from that day, the things wey they go hear from the talk go dey important to them pass before. Why e be like that? Na because they go need to follow the advice wey they go hear from the talk as husband and wife.

² Na the same thing de happen when husband and wife begin to get children. For many years, they fit don de hear many talks about how to train children. But now, they go need the advice wey them de hear from the talks pass before. They go get their own pikin wey they go train. This one no be small work at all! True-true, when things change for our life, some Bible verse them wey we know before go benefit us more. This one na one reason why servants of Jehovah de read Bible. And Jehovah tell the kings for Israel that time, make them de think deep about e Word “all the days” wey they go live their life.—Deut. 17:19.

3. Wetin we go talk about for this article?

³ Papa and mama, wuna get one special work wey servants of Jehovah fit get today, wey be, to teach wuna children about Jehovah. But no be just to teach them some things about God, wuna go do pass that one. Wuna want help wuna children to get strong love for Jehovah. Wetin wuna fit do to help wuna children love Jehovah from the heart? For this article, we go talk about four advice from Bible wey fit help wuna as papa and mama. (2 Tim. 3:16) We go still see how some papa and mama for congregation  don gain as them de follow the advice from Bible.

4. Wetin be one advice wey fit help papa and mama to make their children love Jehovah from their heart? (James 1:5)

⁴ Advice 1: Try get advice from Jehovah. Tell Jehovah make e give you the sense wey you need to help your children love-am. (Read James 1:5.) The best advice wey you fit get na from Jehovah. Plenty reasons dey why we talk like that. Make we talk about just two. Number one, na Jehovah sabi care for e children pass. (Ps. 36:9) And number two, gain de always dey for the better advice wey Jehovah de give.—Isa. 48:17.

5. (a) Wetin be some things wey Jehovah’s organization de give papa and mama to help them? (b) As e dey for the video, wetin you learn from the way Brother and Sister Amorim train their children?

⁵ Jehovah de use e Word and e organization to give papa and mama plenty things from Bible wey fit help them train their children to love Jehovah. (Matt. 24:45) For example, you fit see plenty advice wey fit help you for the topic wey be “Things Wey Fit Help Family.” For some years, we be de print this topic for inside Awake! magazine. But now you go fit see-am for our website for Internet. And many videos for jw.org fit help papa and mama follow the advice from Jehovah as them de train their children. *—Prov. 2:4-6.

6. How one papa de feel about how Jehovah’s organization de guide e and e wife?

⁶ Many papa and mama don show say they really like as Jehovah use e organization de help them. One papa wey e name na Joe talk say: “To train three children to serve Jehovah no easy at all. Me and my wife de always pray to Jehovah make e help us. And many times, we de feel say one article or video wey just come out, come for the right time to help us handle something wey we de face. We don always trust the advice wey Jehovah de give.” Joe and e wife don see say this kind  articles and videos de help their children to near Jehovah.

7. Why e dey important for papa and mama to do their best to show fine example? (Romans 2:21)

⁷ Advice 2: Use your example teach. Children de really see wetin their papa and mama de do, and many times them de follow their example. The truth be say, no papa or mama dey perfect. (Rom. 3:23) Even with that one, better papa and mama de really do their best to be better example for their children. (Read Romans 2:21.) One papa talk about children say: “They be like foam wey de soak anything around-am.” E still talk say: “Them de tell us when we no de do the things wey we teach them to do.” The truth be say, if we want make our children love Jehovah, our love for Jehovah suppose dey strong and dey clear for them to see.

8-9. Wetin you learn from the things wey Andrew and Emma talk?

⁸ Plenty ways dey wey papa and mama fit teach their children to love Jehovah. See wetin one Brother Andrew wey dey 17 years talk. E say: “My papa and mama de always teach me that time say e dey important to pray. Every night, my papa go pray with me even though say I don already pray by myself. My papa and mama de always help me and my sister remember say: ‘You fit talk to Jehovah many times as you want.’ Because of that one, prayer come really dey important to me. Now e dey easy for me to pray and to feel say Jehovah na Papa wey really love me.” Papa and mama, make wuna de always remember say wuna own love for Jehovah fit make wuna children love Jehovah too.

⁹ See the example of Emma too. When Emma papa abandon them, e owe plenty people money and e leave Emma mama to pay all the money. Emma talk say: “Plenty times dey wey my mama no get enough money, but e de always talk about how Jehovah de care and provide for e servants. I see-am for the way e de live e life say e really believe-am. My mama de do wetin e teach me.” Wetin we learn from this example? Papa and mama fit use their own example teach, even when things no easy.—Gal. 6:9.

10. Which different-different chance Israel people for Bible time get, to talk with their children about Jehovah? (Deuteronomy 6:6, 7)

¹⁰ Advice 3: De always talk with your children. Jehovah tell Israel people for Bible time say make them de always teach their children about-am. (Read Deuteronomy 6:6, 7.) That time, papa and mama get plenty chance for the whole day to talk with their children and help them to love Jehovah from their heart. For example, one young Israel boy fit spend plenty time de help e papa de plant things for farm, or collect the things wey don grow from farm. E sister fit spend plenty time de help e mama to sew cloth, weave cloth, and do other things for house. As papa and mama de work together with their children, they fit talk about plenty other important things. For example, they fit talk about how Jehovah really dey good and how e de help their family.

11. Which chance papa and mama get to talk with their children today?

¹¹ Today, things don change. For many place, papa and mama no fit spend time with their children for the whole day. Papa and mama fit dey for work and the  children fit dey for school. So because of this one, papa and mama must find time wey they go fit use talk with their children. (Eph. 5:15, 16; Phil. 1:10) Family worship na one better chance wey they fit use do this one. One young brother wey e name na Alexander talk say: “My papa de always arrange for our family worship, and e no de allow anything to take this time wey we de spend together. After the study, we go just de talk together as family.”

12. Wetin family head suppose get for mind as them de do family worship?

¹² If you be family head, wetin you fit do to make your children de enjoy family worship? E go good if you study our fine new book wey the name na Enjoy Life Now and Forever! with your children. This book go make-am dey easy for you to get better discussion with your children. You want make your children tell you how them de really feel, and the things wey de worry them. So, no use the time for family worship to talk about the bad things wey they do or correct them. And try make you no vex if sometimes your children talk things wey Bible no support. Instead, make you dey happy say they tell you how them de really feel, and encourage them make they continue to do like that. You go fit help your children well only when you know how them de really feel.

13. Which other chance papa and mama get to help their children near Jehovah?

¹³ Papa and mama, make wuna de find different-different chance for the day to help wuna children de near Jehovah. Wuna no need to wait till the time wey wuna go study Bible before wuna teach them about our God wey love us. See wetin one mama wey e name na Lisa talk, e say: “We use everything wey dey around us to teach our children about Jehovah. For example, when our dog do something wey make our children laugh, we tell them say, that one show say Jehovah na happy God, and e make-am possible for us to dey happy and de enjoy things wey de make person laugh too.”

14. Why e dey important for papa and mama to help their children choose better friends? (Proverbs 13:20)

 ¹⁴ Advice 4: Help your children to choose better friends. Bible make-am clear say our friends fit affect us for good way or for bad way. (Read Proverbs 13:20.) Papa and mama, wuna know the kind friends wey wuna children get? Wuna don meet them before and spend some time with them? Wetin wuna fit do to help wuna children be friends with people wey love Jehovah? (1 Cor. 15:33) Wuna fit help wuna children to get good friends when wuna de invite people wey hold Jehovah tight come wuna house to do things with wuna and wuna children.—Ps. 119:63.

15. Wetin papa and mama fit do to help their children get better friends?

¹⁵ See the experience of one papa wey e name na Tony. E explain wetin e and e wife don do to help their children get better friends. E talk say: “For many years, me and my wife don invite different-different brothers and sisters come our house, both young people and old people. We de chop together and do family worship together. This one na better way to know people wey love and de serve Jehovah with joy. Na blessing say circuit overseers, missionaries, and other people come stay for our house. Our children learn plenty things from their experience wey they tell us, their love for the truth, and the way them de work hard for Jehovah. All this things don really help our children near Jehovah.” Papa and mama, make wuna tell wuna self say wuna go help wuna children to get better friends.

16. What if pikin decide say e no want serve Jehovah?

¹⁶ What if, even with your hard work, one of your children talk say e no want serve Jehovah? Make you no think say you don fail as papa or mama. Jehovah don give all of us even children, the gift wey be the freedom to choose wetin we want do. Na we go choose whether we go serve God or we no go serve God. If your  pikin don decide to leave Jehovah, make you no tire to get hope say one day e go come back. Remember the story about the foolish son. (Luke 15:11-19, 22-24) That young man do many bad things, but for the end e come back. Some people fit talk say, “This one na just story. This one fit happen for real life?” Yes, e fit happen. The truth be say, this one happen to one young man wey e name na Elie.

17. How Elie experience encourage you?

¹⁷ Elie talk about e papa and mama say: “They do their best to make me get strong love for Jehovah and e Word, the Bible. But when I dey about 15 years, I start to dey stubborn.” Elie start to hide do bad things. E papa and mama try to help-am hold Jehovah tight, but e no gree listen. After e comot for house, e come really put hand for bad thing. Even with that one, sometimes e de talk about Bible with one of e friends. Elie talk say: “The more I de talk about Jehovah to my friend, the more I de notice say I de think about Jehovah. Small-small, the seeds of Bible truth wey don dey my heart, start to grow. This one na the seeds wey my papa and mama don try hard to plant.” As time de go, Elie come back to the truth. * Just think of how e papa and mama go don really dey happy say they don try to teach Elie to love Jehovah from when e still small!—2 Tim. 3:14, 15.

18. How you de feel about papa and mama wey de work hard to teach their children to love Jehovah?

¹⁸ Papa and mama, Jehovah don give wuna wonderful gift. And this gift na to train new generation of servants of Jehovah. (Ps. 78:4-6) This one no be small work at all. And we really thank wuna from our heart for wuna hard work to help wuna children! If wuna continue to do wuna best to help wuna children to love Jehovah and teach them to obey Jehovah, wuna fit dey sure say our Papa for heaven wey love us go really dey happy with wuna.—Eph. 6:4.