It is difficult parenting in this present age....

                               

  We teach our 4 year old that if the seams are showing on his shirt that it is 'inside out'. Then our oldest son comes over in a Aeropostale shirt that is made with seams on the outside.
  In regards to 'time' I have asked the little kids "Tell me when the big hand gets on the....." and they ask "Whose hand does what?" Oh yes the digital age. They don't even know what a regular clock looks like.
  Our family in particular likes to complicate things further. Of course we teach our children to 'never touch a gun if you see one'. Then we go to reenactments and they play with them all weekend. Or how about this one, "never point a gun at anyone" ...unless of course you are at a reenactment and Yankees are coming!
  Or, "You must further your education": Yet we find that 'higher education' is often unprofitable and we would recommend a trade school for our boys instead.
  Yes it is a complicated age that we live in, however scripture teaches us that "There is nothing new under the sun". These are merely some of the reasons why we are adverse to legalism of any kind. Things must be discerned and decided upon based on context. Romans 8:5 tells us: For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
( http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom38.xii.ii.html)
  It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.(John 6:63)
  Now with all of that being said, let us not fall into 'emotionalism or mysticism', when it comes to discerning the will of God. Of course; (2 Timothy 3:16) All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
  May the Lord give us grace to live in "Spirit and in truth", and rightly divide the word of God.(Heb 4:12) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.