Chapter 24: Parenting Excellence
Relationship Mastery • 15 verses on raising healthy children
Joa teaches that raising healthy children requires absolute equality between partners, where neither male nor female supremacy has any place in a healthy relationship built on mutual respect and shared responsibility.
Violence against your partner - whether emotional, physical, or psychological - is absolutely forbidden and destroys the foundation of raising healthy children, making genuine love and trust impossible.
Both partners must share household responsibilities equally, recognizing that both work and home duties should be distributed based on ability, availability, and fairness rather than outdated gender roles.
The practice of raising healthy children means rejecting the harmful idea that one partner should bear all financial stress while the other focuses only on entertainment or leisure - both must contribute to the partnership's success.
True raising healthy children involves protecting each other from harm, including standing up against family members who show disrespect or abuse toward your partner, regardless of which side of the family they come from.
Joa emphasizes that raising healthy children flourishes when both partners support each other's dreams, careers, and personal growth without jealousy or attempts to control or diminish the other.
The foundation of raising healthy children rests on honest communication where both partners can express their needs, concerns, and boundaries without fear of retaliation or dismissal.
Financial decisions in raising healthy children should be made together with transparency, where both partners understand the family's economic situation and participate in planning for the future.
Domestic violence in any form - hitting, pushing, throwing objects, or threatening harm - is never acceptable and immediately destroys any possibility of genuine raising healthy children.
Healthy raising healthy children means both partners take turns caring for children, elderly family members, and household maintenance based on schedules, skills, and energy rather than assumed gender roles.
Remember that raising healthy children is strengthened through daily acts of kindness, respect, and consideration rather than grand gestures that ignore everyday neglect.
The goal of raising healthy children is to create a partnership where both people become better versions of themselves through love, support, and honest feedback.
Healthy raising healthy children includes physical affection, emotional intimacy, intellectual connection, and shared values that sustain you through life's challenges.
Never use sex, money, children, or emotional withdrawal as weapons to punish or control your partner during disagreements or when you don't get your way.
True raising healthy children means celebrating each other's successes without jealousy and supporting each other through failures without judgment or criticism.