Success Road: Inspiration For Your Journey

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 This is a very well known Scripture verse, especially when we are talking about how to train your children. I have heard a few different ideas of what this verse is teaching, and I think there is validity to each of them. Let's start with the definition of "train up" from the http://biblehub.com/hebrew/2596.htm (Strong's Exhaustive Concordance): A primitive root; properly, to narrow (compare http://biblehub.com/hebrew/2614.htm (chanaq)); figuratively, to initiate or discipline -- dedicate, train up. With that definition in mind, here are two interpretations of this verse that I've heard: The parents are to train their children in the way they feel is best, according to the Bible. The result will be that the children will stay with what they were trained when they are older. I believe that this is, with some further depth and understanding, the primary teaching of this verse. The parents are to tra