WW--Children Should Not Obey Their Parents

~How do you expect them to learn but through their mistakes?
~When you tell them to not do something, that lesson doesn’t really have the weight of a real-life experience of the pain of stupidity.
~Parents are often wrong.
~What about those cases where parents are telling their kids to do something awful or evil?
~You can’t simultaneously complain about how immoral most Americans are and how inept most parents are and then turn around and tell kids to obey these inept, immoral people just because they donated some chromosomes.
~This is what movies and television regularly teach, so how can it not be true?
~Parents are not really aware of the world and children’s needs anyhow. They’re mostly inept bumblers, right?
~Kids are people, too.
~Who died and left you king?
~We all agree that kids need to learn to make their own decisions.
~Things are not right because parents say so, but because they are right. If parents cannot explain it so the kid understands, whose fault is that?
~Tyrannical parents love the idea of submission.
~Don’t you believe in limited government? How is that different?
~If a kid has to live with the consequences of his decisions, then why not let him make them himself?
~God gave them a conscience and speaks to them, too, right?
~How does owning an operational reproductive organs qualify you to make decisions for another person’s life?
~Wasn’t slavery outlawed 150 years ago?
~The Declaration of Independence could have easily been written on behalf of most children.
~Was the 5^th Commandment written by a child?
~What if your parent is an atheist?

Post-Show Thoughts: The family is God's greatest gift to us for our personal blessing and development. We learn how to obey our parents so that we can learn three vital things: that the world will require obedience from us, that God will require obedience from us, and how to be a good spouse and parent ourselves. You cannot lead until you know how to follow, and a parent who never learned how to obey his own parents will never make a good parent himself. Learning how to get along with difficult people over whom we don't have power (as kids) is the best preparation for getting along with our spouses and for keeping us from being tyrants over our own children. Of course parents know more than kids, but the duty to obey parents is in place even when the parents are wrong. The tremendous blessings that come from obeying imperfect parents or even having bad ones are rarely understood.