2. How to Breed a Fool, Part I The Importance of Teaching Your Children to Be Humble

3. Three Crucial Points Your children ARE NOT the center of the universe. Your world does NOT revolve around your children (it should revolve around Christ) God is God. Im not. Youre not. Your child is not.

4. Egotists We Have Known Eve (Genesis 3:5-6) Cain (Genesis 4:4-6) Samson (Judges 15:15-16) Saul (I Sam. 15:24-25, 30; 18:7-9; 27-30) Absalom (II Sam. 14:25-26; 15:1-17; 18:9) Diotrephes (II John 9)

5. Drive out the folly! Proverbs 13:24: He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. Prov. 19:18a: Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction. Prov. 22:15: Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it from him. Prov. 23:13, 14: Do not withhold discipline from your child; if you strike him with the rod he will not die. If you strike him with the rod you will save his soul from Sheol. Prov. 29:15,17: The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother… Discipline your son and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

6. Questions Whos in charge at your house? Are you afraid to say No? Why? Do your children demonstrate respect and love for God and others? Are your children seeking an identity apart from yours? Why?

7. The First and Hardest Lesson Each child must experience his or her own Copernican revolution. Jean Piaget Each child must learn that they are not the center of the world. Instead, teach them the way of the Lord Matthew 20:25-28

8. What Can We Do? Drive out the folly! Proverbs still matters. Model Humility –Isaiah 66:1-2; Matthew 11:28-30 (Romans 8:29) Govern your childs pride – ask: what is its source and nature? –A child who grows into a proud man or woman is forever lost to the Lord. –Psalm 10:4