Training Children: Obedience, Again

“To my eyes, a parent always yielding, and a child always having its own way, are a most painful sight;--painful because I see God’s appointed order of things inverted and turned upside down;--painful, because I feel sure the consequence to that child’s character in the end will be self-will, pride, and self-conceit. You must not wonder that men refuse to obey their Father which is in heaven, if you allow them, when children, to disobey their father who is upon earth (J.C. Ryle, The Duties of Parents, p. 33).”