Parenting by Paul David Tripp
Week 8: Principle 7 — Grow Up
Read Chapter 7 of Parenting by Paul David Tripp.
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With characteristic directness, Tripp calls parents to examine their own spiritual maturity — not as a source of condemnation, but as an invitation to the ongoing grace that grows us up. This is one of the most personal chapters in the book.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Tripp's title for this principle — "Grow Up" — is pointed. What does he mean by it, and why does he consider a parent's personal spiritual growth to be a parenting issue, not just a personal one?
2.He argues that immature parents produce characteristic patterns in the home: self-focus, reactivity, inconsistency, emotional volatility. Which of these, if any, do you recognize in yourself? What does it look like in your household?
3.Tripp suggests that many parents plateau spiritually around the time life gets busy — careers, children, mortgages. What does a plateau in your own discipleship do to your parenting over time?
a.What spiritual practices have you let slide in the busy season of parenting?
b.What would it look like to reclaim even one of them?