What Is the Biggest Mistake Most Parents Make? We answered that question on this episode of Real Truth. Real Quick.

Show Notes:

Principles:
1. It’s not what we do as parents, but rather what we don’t do, that provokes our kids to anger.
2. We are to be a loving authority in our child’s life, not their best friend.
3. Children eventually become angry if you let them believe that life is all about them, and there are no consequences for their choices.
4. One of the ways God drives us to grace is by allowing us to experience the pain of living a rebellious life.
5. God wants you to be a present parent who lovingly disciplines.
6. You are going to have your child on the path to destruction if you continue to let them do what they want to do without consequences.
7. If parents do not discipline their kids, the world will and it won’t be because it loves them.
8. The biggest mistake is not allowing kids to experience little consequences, because later, they will be angry about the larger, unavoidable consequences of an undisciplined life.
9. Admonishment is not enough as fools advance in their sin.

“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4

“Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.” Colossians 3:21

“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4

“For whom the LORD loves He reproves, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.” Proverbs 3:12

“For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives.” Hebrews 12:6

“All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” Hebrews 12:11

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.” Galatians 6:7

“Do not hold back discipline from the child, although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.” Proverbs 23:13

“You shall strike him with the rod and rescue his soul from Sheol.” Proverbs 23:14

“Discipline your son while there is hope, and do not desire his death.” Proverbs 19:18

“The one who despises the word will be in debt to it, but the one who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” Proverbs 13:13

“Good understanding produces favor, but the way of the treacherous is hard.” Proverbs 13:15

“…Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who
despise My name.” Malachi 1:6

Thus the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD, for the men despised the offering of the LORD. 1 Samuel 2:17

“Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the
doorway of the tent of meeting.” 1 Samuel 2:22

“He said to them, “Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people?” 1 Samuel 2:23

“No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the Lord’s people circulating.” 1 Samuel 2:24

“This will be the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: on the same day both of them will die.” 1 Samuel 2:34

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