What a Crew!

When I look into these faces I am often admonished to live out my parenting in a kinder, gentler manner as Matthew Henry describes.

Let not your authority over them be exercised with rigour and severity, but kindness and gentleness, lest you raise their passions and discourage them in their duty, and by holding the reins too tight make them fly out with greater fierceness. The bad temper and example of imprudent parents often prove a great hindrance to their children and a stumbling-block in their way. And it is by the tenderness of parents, and dutifulness of children, that God ordinarily furnishes His church with a seed to serve Him, and propogates religion from age to age. - Matthew Henry