Many parents in our country have an entitlement problem, demanding the "right" to abuse their children by punishment and control out in the open, and sexual violence in private, on dark web servers. God's order is very clear here - parents are entitled to nothing from children, and children are entitled to everything from parents. That means use your manners when speaking to children.
Manners are based out of Christian non-entitlement, as established by the Tenth Commandment, which states in Exodus 20:17 KJV:
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
The Hebrew word translated "covet" is לחמוד (Latin: lachmod) and refers not merely want, but merely wanting to the point of seeking to impose an item onto a child, leading to theft/abuse, coming from the entitled attitude of "I am a good parent, so I deserve respect from a child". You are deserving of absolutely nothing good from your child, and everything bad, disrespectful, and rebellious, for you are a depraved and evil sinner merely for existing in relation to children, just as I confess to myself and to others, just as I choose not to abuse your child in any way, even as you abuse yours. This commandment is cross-referenced in the negative by the Greek root word πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektes)
I don't deserve respect from a child, so when they do something I ask them to do, I say "thank you", and when I ask her to do a favor, I ask "can you please get your clothes on, because the school bus should be arriving in 20 minutes". She could have easily flipped me off, and cursed me out, but she didn't, because she was my friend.
Giving orders to children without saying "please" or "thank you" is a sign of entitlement. It is not a definite form of deadly entitlement, but comes from an entitled attitude. An attitude of imposition and objectification, seeing children merely as objects to order around.
Use your manners, parents. I see impolite parents all the time, and I know where they're headed...
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