Proverbs 22, verse 6 is the text that all of this is built upon. Train up a child in the way he
should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. We're
going to review a little bit today. I know I told you that
we would be doing something else, but so many things keep coming
to mind, things I forgot to say. So we're going to review. It's
always good to review. It's always good to go back over
things we've looked at before the gospel. That's all we do
when we preach the gospel, is just keep repeating things we've
already heard. Paul wrote, seeing you know these
things before. And to write the same things
is good. Our first lesson on this subject
of child discipline was that this is God's word. God's word
to us as parents. God's word to believers, believing
parents. And God's word is command. God's word is not advice to his
people, his command. God's word is a promise, too. God who cannot lie makes promises
to his people, and he will honor his promise. He will. If God
says, you do this, and I'll do that, count on it. Go ahead. Prove him. He says,
train up a child. That's a command. train, he said,
of Abraham. I know him. He'll command his
children. Do it. And he said, and when they're
old, here's the promise, and I'll depart from them. Here's
the command, honor thy father and thy mother. It's not advice,
it's command. Here's the promise, and it shall
be well with you. That's the first commandment
with promise, Scripture says. Children, obey your parents. That's the
command. Here's the promise, and it will be well with you.
And we looked in that first lesson that God is our God, and whom
we believe, whom we trust. His Word is true wisdom, and
so we don't trust men. lean upon the arm of the flesh.
It's God, his word. God's word is the only word on
this subject of child disciple. We've got to come to that conclusion.
It's the only word. It's not just a good word. It's the only word. If there's
anything worth listening to by man today on this subject or
any subject, listen to me. If there's anything worth listening
to from men, on this subject or any subject, I guarantee you,
I guarantee you, the root of it, the principle of it, comes
from this book. Write it down. And God Almighty,
well, He wrote it down. God Almighty said, and His Word
says, half not God made foolish the wisdom of this world. What
the world calls wisdom, God says it's utter foolishness, and we
have to come to that conclusion. What the experts say is a pack
of foolishness. on every subject, especially
the subject of God and salvation. And if we studied hard enough,
if we looked into God's Word hard enough, if we diligently
searched and dug in God's Word, we would see a scripture for
every single thing we run into in this life, everything. We'd
see a precedent. We'd see a story. We'd see, certainly,
principles. that applies to every single
thing we will run into. There's nothing new under the
sun. Modern man is not different. It's not new. Things are different
now. There's new situations. No, not at all. Not at all. Not one bit different. And if
we searched hard enough, we would find a word from God on any subject,
any situation, any decision we need about. That's right. And so this was our first subject,
let God be true, and every man a liar. And as time goes on,
as men get further and further away from this book, Scripture
says that, the last day, they turn away their ears from the
truth unto what? What is that? Fables, old wives'
fables, tales and so forth. And so what we need to do is
turn away our ears from modern thought and all that. Just turn
away. I don't believe that. I believe God. Receive it. Act upon it. There's
so many instances. We're talking about child raising.
Breastfeeding. Do you remember a few years back
that it was totally rejected by modern medicine? Do you remember
that? There's one reason why God put
two breasts on a woman. Every animal on the face of God's
earth nurses its young. It's the most nutritional. It is their vaccination from
things. It's amazing. It's an amazing
creation by God Almighty. Yet modern man came up with the
idea that it's not a good thing. And then finally, somebody realizes,
somebody comes to their senses and says, maybe it is after all.
And now it's a big thing. Man's a fool. And there's no
fool like an educated fool. Where'd that come from? It comes
from Romans 1, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
Well, so here was our first lesson. I've got to go on. That God,
let God be true and every man a liar. The text here, everything
is built upon that. Training our child. Training
our child. We're trying to train them. Train
them by the grace of God. By the grace of God. Asking God for wisdom. Asking
God for help to train our children. That just means exactly what
it says. Train them. They're not going to turn out
all right. They've got to be trained. They're born wild asses,
Colt. Come forth from the womb speaking
lies. They're unregenerate. They're not going to turn out
all right. We've got to train them. This
is what God said. Train them. That's the command. Trying to train them. Now, we
cannot save them. Only God can save them, right?
We're trying to train them to, as we said last week, bring them
up to at least be good, responsible, productive adults. That's the
whole goal, isn't it? That's the goal, for them to
be good, responsible adults. Only God can give eternal life,
and we're trying to train them to live in this life a good life. Lesson number two we looked at.
Respect for authority. Respect for authority. We looked
at that need to instill in our children respect for authority.
Now, more than ever before, do we need to teach our children
respect for authority. You know it. This thing called
attitude. This thing called attitude is
not only lauded, or that is praised, but it's encouraged. And it's
a fancy word for pride, and God hates it. God hates it. It's the first thing God hates.
It's the ugliest thing known to man. It's the ugliest thing
of all. When you see pride in people,
a haughty look, pride and haughtiness, rebellion. Now more than ever,
we need to instill in our children this humility and this respect
for authority, respect for elders. Authority, an authority is one
who is in charge, in power. One who rules, right? One who
rules. Is it necessary that someone
rule? Absolutely. We cannot rule ourselves. We cannot. As we noted before,
that the best type of government is a monarchy, where there's
a king, a good king. God Almighty, that's the first
government God, well, it's always been His government. He's always
had His king reigning and ruling over His people. And that will
change. Monarchy. We've been under a
monarchy and always will be. It's a good thing. Democracy
doesn't work. It really doesn't. We can't rule
ourselves. We can't rule ourselves. Government by the people, for
the people. Sounds good. It sounds good, but it doesn't
work. Greed and selfishness and liberties
once given, never taken back until it's just gone plum wild. This authority begins with God. Romans 13 tells us that. All
power is of God. There's no power but of God,
he said. And he that resisteth the power.
He or she or whoever it is that resisteth or rebels against any
form of authority, this is Romans 13, resisteth God. Now, when did he write that?
Under Nero, the most tyrannical ruler in the history of mankind,
one of them. And he went on to say, rulers
are not a terror to good works. In that same chapter, rulers
are not a terror to good works. You do that which is right, you
have praise of the same, and nothing to fear. So respect for
authority begins with God, kings, governors, officers, on down
the line, parents, teachers, job superintendent, and on and
on. Submission, respect, submission,
the key to happiness, if that's instilled in our children,
Our God says it shall be well with them. All rebels against
God are going to be destroyed someday. All rebels against God
are going to be destroyed someday. And all rebels in this society
are going to have a rough time of it, just living, just getting
by. So command them to respect, submit,
obey authority. And we pointed out in that lesson
how that our children are born, as we said, unregenerate. They're
born little rebels. Yes, they are. Yes, they are. I know we think they're just,
you know, the sweetest thing there ever was, and they appear
to be so for a little while, but it doesn't take long until
you start coming out of them. Until you see yourself in them. Our children are born unregenerate.
He can't reason with a rebel. There's only one way to treat
a rebel. There's only one way to deal with a rebel. Command
him. Right. I don't mean to sound hard here,
but I'm just being very factual of the matter here. Only command. He can't reason with someone
who has no reasoning. You with me? You can't reason
with someone who does not have any experience in anything. Reason comes from experience.
You understand? Reason comes from experience.
You're going to explain to our little, little children why you're
doing something. They're just not going to understand
you. They have never experienced. They can't understand you. They
can't possibly. That's the way you've got to
do it. You're going to do that because I said so. And you will try to explain.
Next week, we're going to talk about this thing of communication
and positive reinforcement and all that. But first thing, commandment. This is the way it's going to
be. Not reason. And it starts at
home. This starts at home. And on the subject of this respect
for authority, and this includes respect for our elders, So many
things keep coming to mind that we haven't dealt with, but this
respect for elders involves speaking to elders, acknowledging our
elders, adults. Our children should be taught
to acknowledge adults. How many of you have children just totally ignoring
you, wanting to speak to you? That's the rudest thing you can
possibly do to somebody. And they're not going to do it
unless you force them to do so. I'll give you an illustration.
Our daughter, do you think she is now a friendly, outgoing person? Does she greet you? She wasn't
always that way. Like every one of them. You know,
it's born selfish, thinking about themselves. Not thinking about
anybody else. Wanting attention to themselves. It was a time when, you know,
she wouldn't speak. Early on, she wouldn't speak
to anybody. Her mother took her to the side
one day. We were going to the Cherokee Bible Conference, and
she took her to the side after witnessing this, her not speaking,
and physically instilled a lesson in her that you will speak to
adults. You will be friendly to adults.
You will say hello to them and not ignore them. And everyone
at that conference remarked after it was over, Hannah is so friendly. She's so outgoing. She just came
up to me and spoke to me secretly. That does not come naturally. And I remember me telling you
about Cary Grace, my niece coming down Waking up one morning and
coming down in a bad mood, and my sister telling her, uh-uh,
you don't come down here in a bad mood. You don't have the right
to make us have a bad day. And you don't have any reason
to be unhappy. You've got every reason to be happy. You go right
back upstairs and you put a smile on your face and not come back
down until you have one. Do you know Carrie Coffey right
now? Do you know her? Is she a happy
person? I've never seen her without a
smile on her face. Is that the way you want your
children to be? Is that the way you want your
daughter to be? Train them. God says, train them. Train them. Speak to adults.
Speak respectfully. Yes, sir. Boy, this is one of
the hardest things there is to do. Teach yes, sir and yes, ma'am. Thank you. That's one of the best words
they can possibly learn. Thank you. It's the most ungrateful,
unthinkable thing for someone to do something for you, someone
to be gracious to you, someone to wait on you, someone and you
not thank them for it. The adults, anything, a glass
of water, thank somebody. We ought to be, we should be,
the most thankful people on earth. Appreciate it. Everything is
grace to unworthy people. Be thankful. Say it. Don't just think it, say it.
And teach your children, thank you. Yes sir. Yes ma'am. And it will be well with them.
Here's two boys standing here applying for a job. One of them
is a smart aleck with an attitude, got his britches hanging down
below his butt. Let's say it like it is, okay?
And he's got tattoos all over him and so forth, and here's
a sensible, decent-looking young man, and this guy, you know,
you old man, and this guy here, yes sir, yes ma'am, yes sir,
I appreciate this job so much, yes sir. Who would you give the
job to? Train him. It'll be well with
him. It's going to go well with him.
It's going to go better with him in this life. And then we talked
about bounds and restraints and limits and curfews. Bounds and restraints and necessity
for putting restraints and limits upon our children. We talked
about the need to set these limitations, and if not, they'll run wild.
They might endanger themselves. Oh yeah, up until even in the
teen years, there's got to be a curfew. Why? Oh, mom, I'm not
getting anything. No, but there's a lot of people
are, and you're going to be, you might be the, you just might be part of it.
There's nothing but drunks on the street after midnight. And
they're going to run over you and kill you. Right? Curfews. It's unreasonable. No, it's safe. It's love. It's not called, it's
not unreasonable, it's called love. One time, let me give you this.
One time, Hannah, when she started dating, she was going to go out
with a boy who we did not know. We did not know anything about
him, didn't know anything about his parents and all that, and we wanted to
know something about him. She thought that was unreasonable.
She was about 19 at the time, and I'm just kidding. Started dating, I don't know,
15, 16, something like that. It was games, but what? We didn't
know. No, but seriously, there was a young boy she was going
to go out with. He was a little older than her.
We knew a little bit. We knew that he was... And we
just didn't know. We just didn't know him. We wanted
to meet him first and all that. And she just thought that was
so unreasonable. And she asked us about it, and
I said, thought about it a little while, and I said, later on,
this happened later, I said, We had a cat at the time that
she dearly loved, Oliver. She still has an old Oliver.
I came to her and said, Hannah, your mother and I are leaving
for a few days. We've got to do something with Oliver. She
said, okay, who are you going to give him to? I said, I don't
know their names. What do you mean you don't know
their name? Well, I've just got to leave him with somebody. We're
leaving, so I'm going to leave him with somebody. But they might
not like animals. It doesn't matter. You can't do that. He said, do
you want me to turn you over to an unknown? I think she understood. And from
that day forward, the boy had to come meet the parents. Oh, pity the boy that met Cody
Groover. Let Hannah tell you that story
someday. He wouldn't even acknowledge they were in the room. Why are fathers like that? Because
they're boys and we know them. We were just like them. And our
daughters think, you're cruel. No, we just know them. Little girls don't know boys.
A lot of big girls don't know boys. Boys know boys. Don't we, boys? This thing of restraints and
bounds and limitations and curfews and all that, it's for their
good and the good of others. It starts early. This is for
the good of others. We need to teach our children
of certain things off limits, especially when they go to somebody
else's house. It starts at home. You've got to teach them at home
the things at home that are off limits. Is that wrong? Is that cruel?
Are you being unfair? You might save their lives. We
pointed that out. That wood stove that we heated
our home with had that thing around it. You know, at times
I forgot to put that barrier around it. But we had instilled in that,
you do not touch that. It wasn't cruel. It was trying
to save her. And we talked about boundaries,
starting like with a playpen, whatever happened to the old
playpen, you know, where children are put in it and taught a good
thing, to play with it by themselves, to occupy themselves while mama
does something. Is that bad? Is that cruel? Is
that mean? And children need to be taught to sit still. It's positively helpful. It's
not cruel. It's positively helpful. Sit
still. And this being told no, you know,
no, that word no, we looked at that. Here's the thing. Nobody
likes unruly children. They don't want your unruly children
in their home. You want your children to be
loved and liked? Sure you do. Train them. You want them to be loved, make
them lovely. Nobody likes untrained dogs or
children. Like old Charlie, everybody says
they love him, but he really bothers you, doesn't he? Nothing wrong. Jumps up on you. Gabe, poor Gabe. Abner's a different story. Well,
the word no, we looked at that, didn't we? The word no. We saw
how that God in his commandments, eight out of ten commandments
are no. Eight out of ten commandments are thou shalt not. Why? Because we're born wrong. Everything about us is wrong.
And the first thing we need to hear is, no. That's just right. Left to ourselves, we're going
to go wrong, we're going to be wrong, we're going to act wrong,
we're going to do wrong. No, no, everything. Child is
not born right, but wrong. No is the most effective word
in the English language. It's the same in nearly every
language. You understand it and you didn't
know, but you know five or six languages. Nein? Nein. Nietzsche? It's Russian for no. Nietzsche?
No. Spanish? No. English? No. French? Huh? What does it mean? No. What does no mean? We adults
are Kind of dumb, aren't we? What does no mean? No doesn't
mean maybe. It doesn't mean, now if you do
that again, does it? It doesn't mean 1, 2, 999. No
doesn't mean a thing. Might as well be saying, you know, like old Charlie. And then he
says no, and he doesn't believe her. No, no, no, no. Now Charlie, when I say no, he
stops dead in his tracks. It scares him to death. You women
need to cultivate your best. No! They need to know, Hannah,
that know means know from you as much as it does daddy. See,
dad's voice itself is pretty scary. It needs to be the same
with you. No. The result's the same. Either parent. No. Swift and
certain consequences. Is this bad? Old Abner, my dog, teach him
to heal. Stay beside him. Teach him what
no is. Keep him out of trouble. We're
walking along. If I had not taught him to stay
beside me, he would run out in the street and get hit by an
automobile. If I don't teach him no, he's going to get into
everything. He doesn't learn what no is.
No. How much more important is it
for our children? No. No. Another lesson we looked
at was self-love. Self-love. Self-love, trying
to restrain this self-love. This is the root of all of our
problems. It's the root of it all. Self-love. We can't kill it. Only God can
kill it. Only the grace of God can kill
it. The gospel of God can kill it,
or suppress it, or mortify it. This is self-love. All we're
doing as parents is trying to restrain it. Trying to keep them
from expression. This self-love, selfishness is
what it is. The ugliest thing of all, isn't
it? The ugliest thing of all. Pride is just self-love. Lovers
of self. 2 Timothy 3, the last days men
shall be lovers of self. That's the first thing. Lovers
of self. Self-love. The ugliest thing
of all. Pride, self-righteousness comes
from loving yourself. The source of all our problems.
Envy. Envy is a source that comes from loving ourselves. We want
it for ourselves. Jealousy. What you're doing to
me. Self. Malice. You did that to me, I'm
going to get you back. Everything comes from self-love.
Hurt feelings. You've hurt me. Unhappiness. I'm not happy. Somebody make me happy. Self-love. And it starts early. It exhibits itself early on. Selfishness in our little children. What we considered in that lesson
was, and modern man hates this. Oh, they would fly up in arms
to hear this, but it's so. This is what God says, okay?
that we are not born unique and special. We are not born special and unique,
but we're one of billions just like us. If you put all those babies in
that nursery, and you look in there, it's just a bunch of babies,
each one special to us, but in themselves, are they special? A member of the human race. We're
born as members of a race of beings. We're not the, the, the
one. We're just a member of a bunch
of them. Nothing unique. You look down
on the human race as God sees us, and you'll see. He said the
inhabitants of the earth are reputed as grasshoppers. Some
of them wear bows and some of them are a little taller than
that. They are all grasshoppers. Ants. Members who are born as
members of a family. Children are born into members
of a family. And so they must be taught that
the world doesn't exist to serve them. They must be taught that
our families are not here to make them happy. The mom and
dad, their whole purpose in living is not to make Junior happy. And we've seen how all of this
applies spiritually, haven't we? We could easily get carried
away with that. Our subject is teaching children.
And each part exists to serve the whole. Right? Members of a body. It's church.
When God puts us in his church, we're not special and unique,
are we? Huh? You know, modern religion likes
to appeal to people that way. You come to church where you
are somebody. That's not God's church. Uh-uh.
You come to the church, when God puts you in a church, you're
nobody. They put that C-H-R-C-H. C-H-blank-R-C-H. Church is not church without
you. Oh, yes it is. It was church long before I got
here, and it would be church if I'm gone. It didn't need me,
and it can exist without me. I'm nobody. We're a bunch of
nobodies. There's one somebody. We're a bunch of toes and toenails. There's one head. Right? Like I said, I get carried away.
I'm not careful on the spiritual side of all this. We need to
teach our children that. They must be taught that each
part exists to serve the whole. And you can't realize the dividends
that this will pay later on when they grow up. As husbands, if
they're taught this, as children, they make better husbands. Service. They make better wives. They
make better employees. They're taught, you've been given
a job to serve the company. This wasn't a right. This wasn't
something they owed you. It's a privilege. They could
have given it to anybody else. And so you exist to serve that
company. What you want is that company
to prosper and excel. Boy, will that ever serve dividends. So this starts early as children.
And they must be taught they're not the only person in the house. That life doesn't revolve around
them. Sure, they get all the attention when they're real,
real young. Sure, they do. You can't help that, can you?
You just can't help it. Everything they do, every day,
every new day, little babies, you're just all taken up with. But there comes a time when they're
going to have to realize there's somebody else around here other
than you. You need to teach them early
that they need to pay attention to other people. We're talking
about this self-love, that they need to be interested in other
people. Now, I'm about to tell you now
one of the best things of all that they could possibly learn
is if they will take an interest in other people and not just
be interested in themselves, they will be loved more. If you want somebody to love
you and be loved, you want to be included and invited and have
lots of friends, show yourself friendly. You take an interest
in them. Nobody likes somebody that all
they like to talk about is themselves. How do you get people to communicate? Get interested in them. Talk
to them. Ask them questions. There's somebody around other
than you. You know why we have a hard time
remembering people's names when we meet them? We're listening for our own.
There's one name that we hear and are anxious to tell. Hello,
what's your name? My name's Paul. And you've forgotten
her name. Why? That's just the way it is. It's just self. It's just flesh.
It's a bad thing. It's a bad thing. It's got to
be killed. It's a bad thing. So we teach
our children early on. This thing is taught to share.
I didn't bring this up. I didn't talk about this. Sharing. Is it stinginess in a child about
the ugliest thing you've ever seen? Huh? It positively angers God Almighty.
Why? Because what do we have that
we didn't receive? And he said, freely hast thou
received. That's what God said. You freely
receive, freely give. I gave it to you. Why? For you
to share. It's the ugliest thing there
is for a child to be selfish and stingy. Ugly. Don't tolerate
it. Nip it in the bud. It's more blessed to give than
to receive. You've got to instill this in
your children early on, that it's more blessed to give than
to receive, that it's more enjoyable. It really is. Isn't it, people?
When you finally grow up as adults, isn't it? Christmas time comes
around. Tell me, do you enjoy receiving
gifts more or giving them? Huh? Come on. What do you look
forward to at Christmas time? Getting gifts? Getting that tie
that you'll never wear? No, you've got something you
want to give them, and you can't wait for them to open it. It
really is more of a blessing to give than receiving. It really
is more of a blessing. It makes you happy. You've got to nip it in the bud,
and it's an ugly thing. And if they act ugly in this
way, it starts down here in the nursery. If they act ugly and
selfish in this way, they need to be dealt with harshly. They
need to be felt ugly, because it is ugly. They need to feel
that I have acted ugly. They need to feel this is a bad
thing. I've done a bad thing. Mine! They need to quickly and
swiftly be taught that's an ugly thing. You've just acted ugly.
Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Is that hard? Am I being hard? They're going to grow up ugly
unless you train them. You want your child to be loved,
you want them to be lovely, don't you? That's not natural. The most lovely trait of all
is charity. What the Bible calls love is
charity. What we call charity, giving.
Love. It's enough. Our children need
to be taught that. Our children need to be taught,
I'm just going to take all the time I want. Our children need
to be taught not to whine, not to complain. You see, so many
things have been coming to mind, and we could keep going with
this study for weeks on end, couldn't we? The teen years would involve
about three years of study with all the psychology and all that. No still applies. Our children need to be taught
not to whine, not to complain, not to be down to mouth. They
need to be thankful, appreciative, happy. They don't have any problems. They don't have any problems.
I told you last week about children in Mexico being forced to carry
50 pounds of wood on their head when they're about six years
old. Our children don't have any problems. They've got nothing
to whine about. How's your day? You like your
job? Don't tolerate that. Don't tolerate it. Teenagers, you get a job,
you'd be real thankful for it. You'd be happy about it. You
go in to work happy, and somebody asks you how your day's going,
fake it. One time you need to fake it. We as Americans don't really
have any problem. We're most blessed. The last
lesson we looked at was the rod, and does that not apply to adults
as well as young people, this thing of being happy and thankful
and so forth, not whining? Why did the children of Israel
not go in and promise man? Murmuring and complaining. That's
it. Murmuring and complaining. That's
it. I told you the story about John,
old John over here at the special house here in town. John, he
was born Down Syndrome in his fifties. We used to take him
skiing on the Special Olympics. But John, we asked him one time,
John, he was about forty-five at the time, we said, he came
running up to us and said, he said, He said, I got a job, I
got a job. They gave me a job. I said, good.
He said, I get to go to work. He said, I get to go to work.
He was so happy. I get to go to work. Get to earn
money, buy things, buy food, clothes. I get to go to work. And he said, and they pay me
too. I thought if every American had
that attitude, we would have zero national debt, our GNP would
be out the sky, zero unemployment. That's right. I get to go to work, and they
pay me to. We didn't instill that in our
children. It's not a right, it's a privilege. And then we looked at the rod
in reproof, that certain painful consequences happen on bad behavior. You don't have to reward bad
behavior. Here, I'll give you a piece of
candy if you keep quit acting bad. Huh, well, let's see. If
I act bad, I get a piece of candy. That make sense? God says. God says. Swift, certain, a little
bit of pain. It's not hard, it's not cruel,
it's the most humane. We looked at this, how it's quick
and it's over. We looked at how pain is a good
thing. Pain is a good thing. It's a gift of God. Pain tells
you when something's wrong. Pain tells you, I don't want
to do that again. That is a bad thing. To get your
playbook is a bad thing. Those of you who weren't here,
I was a young man playing basketball and they told us to bring our
playbook and I forgot it. Oh, after that paddle hit me
a few times, I slept with my playbook. I kept it under my
arm all the time. Rod and reproof. God's the one
that said this. The rod involves a little bit
of pain, swift, certain. We also looked at how it's not
the severity of it necessarily, but the certainty of it. Because
often the anticipation of that paddling is worse than the actual
whipping, isn't it? My daddy would say, go to your
room and lay across the bed. And it lasted days. I thought it
did. I thought laying there on the bed, when's he coming? Now, I bear no physical scars,
no emotional scars. I bear no animosity toward my
father. In fact, I started doing it.
I realized this is the way, this is it. It's most effective. God said it. Both parents. We
saw how both parents need to work together. I told everybody, Becca, about
your parents. When one of them gave you a whipping,
you got one from both of them, right? Do you remember that?
No, you were the baby. Did that happen with you? Okay.
Sometimes the baby, like me, I let him go. After two or after
three, they think, I can't do this anymore. It's hard work.
Parity is hard work, isn't it? With one. How about two? How
about three? Ooh, how about four? In fact, they did leave me alone
quite a few times. They didn't even know I was around.
They ended up neighbors at Carl's. Say, your son's over here. Your
boy, come get him. But the rod and their poop, I
did get the rod. I did get it. And we talked about
the need to not console them too quickly after doing this. They need to feel sorry for what
they've done. They need to feel that they've
done wrong. This is called repentance. You don't run and pick them up
immediately. They need to think about it a
little bit. Next week we're going to talk
about this positive reinforcement, the need for communication. One
of the most important things as parents is communication.
We're going to talk about also one of the most important things,
if not the most important thing of all, is your children need
you. Time spent. We're going to end up on that
positive note.