Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.
The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to short-term damages, such as pain, shame, emotional torment, and fornication, all stemming from an entitled and controlling parental attitude. Children know how to emphasize these damages in a way that hopefully gets the attention of parents. It is called mirroring.
Col. 3:21 was written to fathers in the Christian Church at Colossae, with provocation to anger referring to the fact that when that child in the store "talks back" at her parents, you know where they learned that kind of rude and disrespectful talk - the apple don't far from the tree (or the cell phone that they are always texting on while walking - Millennial parents these days).
This concept is associated with autism, but is a staple in the psyche of many different personalities of children, who reflect back the anger and entitlement of their parents. This should serve not as a nuisance or source of anger/frustration, but an eerie reminder of what kind of parent scum you are to punish a child. Chuck-E looking right up at you, and hopefully you crying at how hurtful your actions were.
I am a unique gentle parenting advocate that I see parents before and after, not a continual stream progress. This is how I assert what parent information I want to hear, and which I was to take a stophand and shove in the past. Coming up to me and telling me about regretful parent actions is very bizarre and jarring in fact. Defend it? You're over there by my standard, and I avoid you.
Let the pro-spanking parents be convicted of their sins by their child's example. Children tend to emulate the example of parents more than what parents say. Let this be fair warning...and parents who do not heed this command will burn in Hell.
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