Conversational entitlement: How to speak to children respectfully

Many parents seek to control and punish their children, and feel like they have the right to order a child around with impunity. Entitlement towards children is often apparent when you speak to them. Conversational entitlement is forcing your own words on the child, not caring if you offend them.

The Greek root word denoting entitlement and cross-referencing the Tenth Commandment is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers to wanting things from children, or wanting children to do things, to the point of seeking to impose said want onto a child, leading to abuse by way of offense perceived. See Colossians 3:21 KJV:

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 directly to the offenses under the Law, imposed by the Eighth Commandment. The slightest of offense perceived by a child, or the slightest of injury or violation perceived, is child abuse, and the goal of respect for children being avoiding abuse when speaking of a child.

The presence of a child should be convicting, meaning out of reverent fear and terror struck into you by a child's precious eyes looking up to you, in a way that cannot be denied. One should feel the righteous judgment of children, for they are an extension of God, called to demand their need, with their need then supplied, with parents and other adults waking and quaking in the presence of children, being convicted of how they as adults have wronged their children, and all children, merely by existing in relation to them, and oppressing children since time immemorial. I am one of them, and I pay due penance to children, knowing I made them my enemy and alienated them for being the adult that I am. 

No adult truly means well around children. The idea is to take this fact, and run with it, for every single adult is wicked, and is to be convicted of their non-existence around children. Speak to children as if you shouldn't exist, and they can call you out on that at any moment, presuming guilt in one's motives beyond a reasonable doubt, allowing children to reel you into a conversation. Adults are to assume children hate them until determined otherwise by the exchange, with children allowing for the conversation to be casual. Be convicted of the child's scolding voice when you violate a boundary, and never forgive yourself until all is forgiven. 

How would I do this? A child would probably reel me into conversation with her, and I might not be interested in what she is, but I'll try to be by nodding and using reflective listening strategies, while not having much of my own to say. Pro-social ragdoll, meaning that's all I am to them - a ragdoll that they drag around, but that's okay. The role of parent is a selfless, thankless job, so you find thanks in how they use you, and I am okay with a child using me for their own good, when I am ready to take on that challenge. I can say "no" these days, if I don't want them to lead me too far into what they want to do, and they usually taunt me. This is the level that all parents should be in relation to children.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them burn and rot in the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!