– Your duties towards your children: love them:
Mt 7,9 : Who among you will give a stone to his son, if he asks him for bread?
Luke 11:11 : If a son asks for bread, which father among you will give him a stone?
Tit 2,4 : That they know how to teach young women to love their husbands, to love their children.
– Watch them:
Eclo 26,13f : Carefully watch the young woman who does not withdraw from men.
Eclo 42,9ss : A daughter is a secret concern to her father; her care keeps him awake at night.
– Fix them:
Pr 13:24 : He who spares his rod hates his son; whoever loves him, punishes him at the right time.
Pr 22,15 : Folly clings to the heart of a child; the rod of discipline will drive you away from it.
Pr 23,13s : Do not spare the boy correction: if you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
Eclo 42,2.5 : Do not be ashamed […] to correct your children frequently.
– Give them a good example:
Ez 16,44 : All the friends of proverbs will say about you: like mother, like daughter.
2Mc 6,24-28 : If I die now, […] I will have left a noble example for young people.
2Mc 7 : We are ready to die, before violating the laws of our fathers.
