If parents really desire the best for children, they will want to prepare children now for the ordeals ahead. Parents who fail to instill in children a sense of humility do children a great injustice. When children are raised to think of themselves as more important than anyone else, they are taught to believe that their opinions, accomplishments, and dreams should monopolize. Proper child rearing requires parent's to teach children, and that children accept parents teaching. However, before children will accept instruction, children must first honor their parent's position.
Parents have the power to force obedience from children.
Parents not only have the power to rule, they have an obligation to the rest of society to enforce children's compliance to authority. Often times, a parent will try to intimidate little children by using threats that God or Santa Clause is watching what they do. They threaten to leave their child behind in stores. They threaten to have the police arrest them or send them to an institution. Some parents even tell young children that monsters will get them.