Start Reinstating Godly Principles

 Children are instructed to be obedient to their parents in all things because it pleases the Lord. They are to pay heed to parental instruction, respect their parent's directives, be quick to obey their voice, and learn life-truths from them. Here the word 'children' is particularly addressing youth, although younger children also need to be taught appropriate standards of discipline and behavior in their early years, if a good character is to be appropriately shaped.
 While obedience is required from a child, the parents are not to frustrate their children, which could cause emotional or spiritual damage and discouragement. There are many ways that parents can exasperate their children. Too authoritarian an approach, as well as a careless disinterest in their child, or a home with little or no discipline, can dishearten, de-motivate, or simply irritate a child. A wise balance between correction and praise - discipline and encouragement is what is advocated here.
 Parents who place too great an emphasis on discipline while neglecting encouragement risk provoking their son or daughter to bitterness, frustration, anger, depression, or even worse. Constantly 'nagging' their children or scolding them can also hinder a child's development by stifling their creativity.
 How sad it is when excessive discipline, a lack of discipline, over-indulgence, or a lack of interest in their child, an abundance rules and regulation, or a lack of them can cause a child to become exasperated "so they lose heart." 
 Today there is an increasing disconnect between children and their parents. Scripture indicates that one of the main reasons is that God has been eliminated from the family and a worldly mindset of selfishness and disrespect has replaced a biblical perspective.
 How important for parents, children, and church fellowships, to refuse to be impacted by worldly standards and to Start Reinstating Godly Principles And Biblical Teaching in their homes so that the children of today will not become the parents of tomorrow who exasperate their children and cause their children to lose heart. 
Parents, do not anger your children, lest they lose heart.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, what a lot there is to assimilate and implement in this simple instruction for parents not to exasperate their children so they will not lose heart. Forgive us for the way we have allowed biblical principles and Godly practice to be gradually removed from our homes and Christian churches. Help us individually and corporately to return to the truth of Your Word so that children will understand the need to obey and respect their parents, as parents bring up their children in the fear and nurture of the Lord through wise discipline, gracious encouragement, and godly respect. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.