Parenting From The Source

Respect for authority is becoming an old-fashioned behavior. I recently overheard a boy about five years old say to his mother, “If you don’t let me have that, I’ll slap your face.” Working in the school system, I watched societal changes evidenced in the way young people speak to their parents and people in authority. [...]

Are you waiting for your child’s moral maturity to develop about the time he or she is eighteen? That’s the age of legal maturity and often physical maturity, so it seems logical that moral maturity would be completed about that same time.

Because our culture stresses equality, we forget to teach our children respect for elders. In public schools, there’s a decline in the respect kids show their teachers which may mirror disrespect for parents. Respect naturally flows from honoring the wisdom of older people. The Israelites were taught to honor their elders:  “Rise up in the [...]

I just read a copy of Billy Graham’s prayer for our country. He said that we have “called evil good” by our various behaviors. One behavior he mentioned was that we fail to discipline our children and call it “building self-esteem.” Actually, a good way to build self-esteem is to discipline our children.

The news comes blaring into the family room. Occupy Wall Street has been in progress for a month now. Your kids have listened to the news with half-attention as they also checked their social media. The facts of the movement are slowly crawling into their brains. Perhaps it’s time to talk to them openly rather [...]