"Duties of Parents to Children," The Pilgrim’s Banner vol. 2 no. 1 (Jan. 1895)
AUTHOR: | Jennings, Rufus H. |
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Watch your children at the church; see that they reverence the worship of God. Don’t allow them to be going in and out of the house during service. Do not think they are entitled to do as they please by reason of age or size. Sometimes your grown children need correcting worse than the smaller ones, especially if you failed to train them right when they were small.
In correcting your children let them know you do so because you love them. Don’t use the rod on them while you are angry. Wait until you are cool and then correct them properly. My dear old mother once told me she corrected me because she loved me. I did not understand it then, but I do now. I then thought it a very poor way to make her love known to me. But she was right. I see it now, and think I can praise the Lord for such a faithful mother—one who loved me too well to allow me to do wrong. |
