RAISING CHILDREN IS A JOINT RESPONSIBILITY OF FATHERS N MOTHERS
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THEY MAKE DECISIONS AND AGREE BETWEEN THEMSELVES ON HOW THEY ARE GOING TO RAISE THEM. THEY MUST REALIZE THAT GOD WILL HOLD THEM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAYS THEIR KIDS BEHAVE.
OUR PROPHET ALSO TAUGHT THAT PARENTS MUST BE WILLING TO MAKE SACRIFICES FOR THEIR CHILDREN.
85 And my wife has had to be both mother and daddy, both, for those children, 'cause I'm away. And her decision.… A father and mother should agree upon their decisions for their children. But I'm not there, I'm in the service of the Lord. And my wife now is forty-four years old, just ten years younger than I. And I come in from one of the meetings, and I was tired. Been about a little over (about) two years ago, I guess, when we come out here. And I had been out, and I was real tired.
86 And my little boy, Joseph, he is just strictly a boy, and running out in school where he hears everything. One day when I come in, he said something another, and sassed his mother. And—and then he run to me. Now, she knowed, he knowed he would get a licking from her.
So she said to me, she said, "Billy, give him a whipping."
87 And he put his arms around me, said, "Daddy, I'm so sorry." He knowed my soft spot.
