Why is it that once you have kids of your own, your parents think it's funny to teach them everything they thought was unacceptable and wouldn't teach you growing up? My mother especially drives me crazy with this. She thinks it's hilarious to teach my 6 yr old daughter phrases like "Whatever", "Talk to the Hand", "I can't hear you". I find it so disrespectful to me for her to do this. She's also teaching my daughter how disrespect me in how she speaks. Although my father isn't as bad, he does his own annoying things. He'll get the kids all wild in a store - like chasing them all over the place - and then expect them to just STOP the first time he asks. You've just made them hyper and now they have to behave at the drop of a hat!!! If they don't, he gets angry with them. I just don't understand their laid back position with my kids. Their lack of example, their lack of judgement, their lack of responsibility in helping to raise them into remarkable Christians and well mannered, well respected, amazing human beings. I have tried to talk to them and all I get back is that I'm over reacting and their just having fun with the kids. I don't think they are being a godly example. Am I over reacting? Am I being too sensitive??? I don't think so...
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land."
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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