CHILDREN WHO RESPECT ELDERS.

Children who have not learned to respect elders or have not learned how to respond to authority, will never be able to exercise authority themselves. Do we teach our children to show respect to older people?

Leviticus 19:32, "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord." Ephesians 6:1-3.

Hebrews 13:17, "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves…"

Read also 1 Thessalonians 12,13; 1 Timothy 5:17; Hebrews 13:7.

CHILDREN WHO KNOW HOW TO WORK.

Teaching our children a work ethic is so important. God gave the principle of work to man for his blessing. Work is the law of man’s being. It is divinely inspired. It is therapeutic – physically, emotionally and mentally.

Genesis 2:8-15, "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden…and the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."

The word ‘dress ‘ in the Hebrew is ‘avad’ and means, ‘to work, serve, labour, till.’ It is translated in other scriptures as "till", "work" and "serve".

Refer to separate article on THE PRINCIPLE OF WORK IN THE WORD OF GOD to see 24 different attitudes that God wants us to have towards work and what He wants us to teach our children about work.