PARENTS - How not to provoke your teen-agers - Arch Bradley & Gil Goethals - July-September 1973

Arch Bradley & Gil Goethals

Ephesians 4:6 and Colossians 3:21 tell us not to provoke our children to wrath. Yet, perhaps without realizing it, many parents are doing just that. Check up on yourself and see what you can do to improve your relationship with the children God has given you. THIS IS what a teen-age daughter of parents in God's Church, with tears rolling down her cheeks, recently told her local minister. "I want to please my parents, but I can never please my dad no matter how hard I work - he always expects more. I try, but I can't get all the work done. I want to talk to him but he doesn't have the time to listen. "When dad comes home from work we don't get love, we get 'chewed out.' If I go someplace and don't call in right away, I am in trouble. "I am never allowed any mistakes. I must bend to every demand no matter what. I am never allowed to make my own decisions. "Dad always thinks I am going to do something wrong, almost to the point where I feel I might as well." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library