When our children reach their teenage years and become rebellious, one of the statements most parents make is, I don't know where this attitude come from. Could it be that we taught it to them? In the early stage of a child life all they want to do is love and obey their parents.So, how did it go from love and obeying to being rebellious and lying? In life we as parents have the biggest influence in our child life. Now that influence will either be a negative influence or a positive influence.My children are all grown now and are doing great, but those teenage years was something I could have done without. The talking back and lying was getting to me. I was always asking them, WHERE IS THIS COMING FROM! After a few years, I was reading the story of Jacob and almost fell out my chair.The Holy Spirit let me know that it was me who taught them.I was taken back to when my son was about 6 years old and always loved to be around his daddy. I use to take him everywhere, and one of the main things I engraved in him was, never tell mama where we been or what we did. It worked like a charm. Everytime his mama asked him about our activities, he had my back. By the age of 11 he knew how to avoid the truth very well.The influence I had on him as a child was a very negative influence. I mentioned the story of Jacob because you can see how his mother had a very negative influence on Jacob life. She taught him to lie and be very deceiving.If you are a parent and are teaching your children to tell the person on the phone that you are not there, or tell the person at the door that you are not home, you make be setting your children up for a very rebellious teenage and adult life.
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