Do you believe family relationships are training wheels for Heaven?

[jennifer_bloom]

I was at a bible study in my 20s and a newly minted father was holding his baby twins in their cradles and he said being responsible for two new lives made him feel like a hero at an awards ceremony, that it gave him a deeply satisfying sense of achievement.

[ohsheeT]

I don't know if it's training wheels for heaven

It could be training wheels for your family when you start it..

It seems to me like every family has a black sheep person in it and it seems to me that.

No matter how much everybody kind of pushes the black sheep person away later on in life they're the person that comes in and keeps family together.

And as for training wheels

I didn't really have a family to speak of
I left when I was 16 and a half and I had to relearn everything that I thought I knew because I didn't know anything

I went to a lot of hard times but it made me believe in myself and it made me understand that parents don't have a handbook on how to teach them how to raise their children

And that was fine by me because everything that has happened to me I wouldn't change a thing just for the fact that when I was raising my children I made sure I did not raise them the way my parents raised me or my brother or sister

So training wheels in that sense yes maybe so and I hope my kids will keep it going

[purplepoppy]

That would imply people who don't reproduce don't qualify for heaven.