Submission

So many people resent authority today.  I'm sure it's been a common attitude in every generation, but in my lifetime, there has been a surge in this type of rebellion among young people.  During the sixties, an inordinate number of teens rebelled against their parents and rejected the values of the previous generation.  Today a lot of those sixties children are parents.  Because these parents are still dealing with their own lack of respect for authority, they are teaching the same attitude to their children.  Many of these young parents embrace the belief that they have no right to expect their children to submit to their authority.  They don't believe their parents had the right to tell them what to do, so they feel it is unfair to demand obedience from their own children.  If this describes you, and you want to raise godly children, you will have to change that way of thinking.   It is not consistent with scripture, where we are clearly taught to submit to those God has put in authority over us, and that starts with our parents.

by L. Elizabeth Krueger.