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Can various promotions which feature a child teaching an adult, play a part in children rebelling in our day?

I say yes! It has caused children to try new things against the wishes of their experienced parents because they feel that their thoughts are out of date. (proverbs 23:22) How do you feel about this?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    If you HONESTLY believe "children rebelling in our day" is something 'new', you haven't been paying attention;

    "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for

    authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place

    of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their

    households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They

    contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties

    at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

    ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L.

    Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277

    (1953)."

    (said ~400BC, only a few hundred years after that Proverbs verse you quote was written, and a millenium before it became a "verse" in a bible actually divided into chapters and verses!)

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