An opinion OT

rrlund

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So since it's been slow,how about an OT opinion question?

Honor Thy Father and Mother.

Lavish them with praise and monuments or live your life in a way that reflects well on them? In other words,don't make people wonder if you were raised by wolves?
 
hah funny you should bring that up now. I got an 18 year old rebel on my hands. Back in my day ya didn't challenge everything your folks taught ya - even if you didn't agree with it.
 
Wow very well spoken . Makes a person wonder anymore . But again , remember that even after raising a child in a loving , respectable , caring Christian home , does not guarantee the outcome with that child . This can also speak for marriage vows . Marriage vows are made , they are to be respectfully kept until our partner dies . Any disputes should be reconsiled or solved with LOVE . No , today we have the womens Liberation movement , care free adultry along with those free-Lance lawyers just waiting for a chance to take money to coaxe a woman to get her way in an encouraged divorce . Oh & then a court system that doesn't even want to hear the word ADULTRY in the court . Money talks during a divorce with no logical reason . I'm speaking from experience . God bless , Ken
 
When I think bsck as to how tough my parents had it, I think they did a good job raising my brother, sister and me.
I try to live my life in a way that they would be proud of.

I recieved a lot of discipline with a switch, razor strap, belt etc. and I deserved every bit of it, and I think it kept me on the straight and narrow.
 
My parents had a wooded paddle the hung on the wall in the kitchen cant remember exactly what it said but had a picture of little boy and girls backside on it. didn't get used much only took couple of times to decide it was easier to behave. I guess it worked I turned out ok so did my sister.
 
(quoted from post at 20:08:29 10/07/13) My parents had a wooded paddle the hung on the wall in the kitchen cant remember exactly what it said but had a picture of little boy and girls backside on it. didn't get used much only took couple of times to decide it was easier to behave. I guess it worked I turned out ok so did my sister.
If that paddle was like the one my folks had, and it sounds like it,
the saying said:
Pa is boss as everyone knows, but what Ma says always goes!
I was such an angel I actually got to read it! Not. LOL
 
As I might have said sometime ago I only a Mother. Father ran out before I was born. They are both gone now but will always remember Mother she did everything to make life fun for us 6 kids.


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we had one that hung on the wall - never used it on us. I think it was too thin and mom was afraid she'd break it. She preferred the stick that she used to feed the clothes through the wringer. That was one hard stick.
 
My Mother's 71st birthday would've been tomorrow Oct. 8th. She past in 1994. I try to honor her everyday by trying to be a decent person. No monument nesscessary. We couldn't afford one anyway.
 
My mother would whip us with whatever she could grab first. Spoon, bedroom slipper, fly swatter, switch, belt, etc. Dad would come home from work and help with our homework. We didn't get to go many places other than church and relatives homes.
They are both in their mid 80's now and I do feel truly blessed to have had them with us this long. Thank you Lord for my parents. Without them Who knows what I would have been.
 
There were two children in my family, my sister is five years younger than I. We didn't have much, but we had each other. If we disobeyed or did something we shouldn't we got a spanking or switching. And I am a better man for it. When I was young we didn't go to church, but we were taught right from wrong according to Bible principles. When I got older, that kept me away from the wrong places and made me think twice before I did anything. Mom died in 2000 and Dad died in 2003, and I still miss them and appreciate all they did every day!
 
People often forget that the 5th commandment is the only one that comes with a reward for doing it.

"Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God hath given thee."
 
The sad part is that so many of us never get around to making right the wrongs we did to our parents before they're gone. It only takes a moment to speak and apology for youthful ignorance, greed, disrespect, laziness, whatever.

I never had figured out why it's so hard to do that. But then, the sins of the father come back and visit the children they say. All the more reason to try to live the straight and narrow way.
 
But even if you didn't right the wrongs,is "Honoring" them done by living a good clean honest life?
 
I have always believed that the word "honor" carries with it the implied "do not dishonor"...since my schoolteachers always drummed it into us kids that a double negative equals a positive.

Some kids just don't get that part of it.
 
That's my way of thinking. Just praising them and hanging around so they'll give you something doesn't honor them. Living a decent life so society can judge that they did a good job raising you is what matters as far as I'm concerned.
 
I'm not sure quite how to say this, but some of the parents are not making much effort to be worthy of honor.

If the Dad is on drugs and never supported the family, and the mom had 3 kids by 3 different guys (could have been 25) before she started living with this one, and grampa is in jail for stealing and grandma ran away off with the rodeo clown, it is kind of difficult to find the proper one to honor.

There are 2 sides to the honor commandment.
 
That's why I think the way to "Honor" them is to live a good life. If you praise somebody who all of society knows is a bum,you'll just look foolish and make everybody think your parents raised a fool.
 

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