Am I Raising a Redneck?

I love to watch football, basketball, the UFC, and almost any other sporting event. My son on the other hand is different. I can't even get him to sit still long enough to watch anything. There are only a couple of exceptions. His favorite movie isn't Veggie Tales or Blues Clues ( he will usually only watch about half of one of those movies). He will watch a John Deer movie we have. It isn't animated, and it really isn't even a story. Actually it is basically a documentary about John Deer Tractors. Not only will he sit still long enough to watch it one time, he will watch it multiple times in a row. His second favorite movie is "Cars."

There is really only one other thing he will sit still and watch. It is what we were watching when this picture was taken. It is Nascar. This leads me to question what kind of kid I am raising. Am I raising a Redneck? I guess I don't know the answer for sure. I do know I have become a little bit of a Nascar fan myself.

Redneck or not raising my children has become not just a passion for me, it is almost an obsession. I find myself questioning conventional wisdom when it comes to raising kids. Even many things that come from good, godly people who have raised good, godly kids. I have an 8 year old daughter and 19 month old boy. Every day I fear for their future and wonder what risks I will have to take in order to help them become people after God's own heart? What hard lessons they will have to learn? How many times will I have to watch them be hurt so they can learn the lessons they need to learn?

I wonder if this is how God sees us sometimes?