How to Protect the Hearts of Your Children

Slide #1: Tension and fighting between parents takes a heavy toll on children.

Slide #2: Children carry a false guilt the fighting is their fault.

Slide #3: Children feel a responsibility to fix the marriage.

Slide #4: Children are overwhelmed by continual fear and insecurity.

Slide #5: Adults should keep their arguments behind (quiet) closed doors.

Slide #6: Adults should never ask the children to choose sides.

Slide #7: Adults should assure the children they (permanently) love each other.

Slide #8: Adults should apologize to the children for their fighting.

Slide #9: "But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." Matthew 18:6