We are blessed if we keep them and if we break the commandments then there are penalties that will follow. Obviously, we don t want our children to rob banks, or to steal from other children or other people. Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children , speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. It takes time to teach.
Children learn many things through repetition.
Let s say, Saturday morning after breakfast. We did this for years with our children as they were growing up. They did not always appreciate it then, and they wondered why dad would do this every Saturday morning. During these sessions was a time that we would teach and quiz our children about the ten commandments. If one of the kids did not remember one of the commandments, they had to make a trip to the living room and look at a ten commandment plaque that my wife had on the living room wall.