Respect

I want to always be respectful of my children.
I want to treat them respectfully because they are not any less of a
person while they are small.
I want to respect them because I hold in reverence my God who made
them as individuals-- they have their own destiny, their own
personality, their own style.
I want to respect them even when these attributes differ from mine.

I think that something our culture teaches us is that it's ok to be
rude to children. I'm not exactly sure why but it's almost like
because kids are innocent enough to not understand it's okay to mock
their choices or ideas or how they act.
I'm not promoting child-worship where everything children say and do
rules... But I AM convicted that we (speaking as a parent) only have
authority over our children for a little while as ordained by God, not
because we are better people than our children or because kids are
dumb and adults are smart (after all, Jesus told us that we have to
come to Him as a little child).
As a parent, I really want to carry this responsibility humbly and
love my babies well by showing them the respect that is due EVERY
person.