D. We can provoke our children by indulgent rule. Children can be despised by paying too much attention to them. E. We can provoke our children by lax or inconsistent rule. The effectiveness of our discipline is not dependent upon its severity but its consistency. Lax rule produces questions about your love.
Inconsistent rule teaches hypocrisy.
We can provoke our children by using disrespectful language when speaking of them or to them. None of this is imply that we are not to rebuke, admonish and correct. We can provoke our children by Pharisaical or hypocritical rule. Condemning something in them that you condone in yourself.