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– 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.