As a Father Pitieth(3): Friendship
Our love for our children must establish friendship between us and them. This is what we must aim at and work for. This is the effect of the Godly love of believing parents, by the grace of the Holy Spirit. We are, and must be, our children’s friends. Life in a Reformed home must be friendship. Within this friendship, all of the rearing must take place— the teaching, the discipline, even the exercise of parental authority. If there is no friendship, the teaching, the discipline, and the...