But when they would have problems with their parents or teachers or friends and they discovered that I had the answer that they needed, they started using grandpa to mean wise man. Kelvin had a knack for getting his peers to take a look at their own roles in creating their problems and to trust that the help they needed would be made available. Fear, hate, envy, gluttony, you name the sin, the antidote to all of them, Kelvin explained, was faith. At various school programs, Kelvin invariably would be asked to speak. And whenever parents were in the audience, he'd direct some special comments toward them.
Parental pressure is greater than peer pressure.
You have more influence than you know. Parents ought to be a child's parents and not a child's friend. It's not about your child liking you. It's about making sure that your child knows right from wrong. He calls on parents to support their children, to congratulate them for doing well as well as correcting them when they are wrong.