"Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged." (Col. 3:21)

Children must be handled with care. They need firm discipline administered in love. Don't alienate them by angering, deriding, or destroying their self-respect so that they lose heart. Prov. 22:6 says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Let us do our best in rearing our children.