Changed beliefs are seen in changed behavior. A person's loves or treasures will be different and those loves or treasures will serve as the foundation for their beliefs. The parent's task is to identify these loves and address the beliefs that flow from them. In short, parents often fight adolescent battles on the wrong ground. The battle is not their teenager's insolence, but their ideas.
Beliefs are decisive in shaping children's choices from friends to lifestyle.
For in the end, Mayberry is not a place, but a state of the heart. The heart must be the priority of those who would learn to love like Jesus and parent like His Father. We're not in Mayberry anymore. Perhaps it's a blessing. It affords parents the opportunity to set their parenting on the right priorities.