Joey & Carla Link
March 11, 2026
During the Spring, we see plants and flowers popping up, making the land look fresh and bright with color. It’s also a time where our kids can start blooming in ways we may or may not be expecting or ready for.
Springtime leads to new experiences for kids who have been cooped up at home during the cold winter months. Kids finally get their bikes out, and want to ride off into the wild blue yonder. Do you take the time first to ask them what the family rules are when it comes to bike riding? Reminding them before they take off for the first time is much better than yelling at them after they get home. Do they keep to the guidelines of coming home when they are supposed to, and not going further than you have told them they can? Or do they stretch these limits with the bloom of spring thinking they are older and wiser now and they can go just a little bit farther, or take a few more freedom’s without getting your permission first?
As Spring stands tall and proud, kids can get full of themselves standing tall and proud too especially after Spring Break in school, because they have already mentally moved themselves up a grade level, plus they are anticipating new freedoms they plan on taking over the Summer.
Parents are all too often blindsided when they have to deal with the very bad, self-centered attitude that comes with pride. When a kid takes an unearned freedom and you don’t say anything, then you are giving them permission to keep this freedom and your kid has established a new standard for the family, because we guarantee you their siblings will follow the freedom-taking leader.
Not only that, but when you do decide they shouldn’t have that freedom so you tell them to stop doing it, why are you surprised when your kids roll their eyes at you and keep it in their freedom arsenal?
Yes, Springtime can be a great time to see your kids bloom and grow and mature in many ways, but all too often it’s also a time when they are stretching out to try new things. Parents need to make sure their kids have full understanding and wisdom to know why they need to do something a certain way and how to do it appropriately.
“Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime; it is the Lord who sends the thunderstorms.
He gives showers of rain to all people, and plants of the field to everyone.”
Zechariah 10:1
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