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Can you share some ideas to help us learn how to teach obedience to our children?
Here are some which my parents used on the six of us, and which I found effective in teaching my only child:
1. Establish trust. Never make an empty threat or an empty promise. Carry through. Love is very patient, very kind, and very inexorable.
2. Speak in a normal tone of voice, and speak once. (Be sure you have the child's attention first-look straight at him, let him know he has your attention.) If you repeat every command two or three times, you are teaching him that he needn't listen the first time.
3. Obey the Bible and use ;1 rod for correction (See Prov 13:24;20:30;23:13) If you start this soon enough (a small switch for a small child) you'll not need to use it often.
4. Following punishment, repentance, and the resultant obedience, assure the child of your love. Never argue with him. Explanations should follow, not precede the command when dealing with a small child. Training, as my mother used to say, comes before teaching.
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