“Fathers,
do not embitter your children,or
they will become discouraged”
- Failure to be happy, hopeful and confident in God
- Endless criticism/fault-finding
- Failure to listen
- Nagging/deriding their efforts
- Constant yelling
- Failure to spend time individually with children
- Unfair, harsh, inconsistent, or nonexistent discipline
- Conflicting messages
- Unwillingness to admit personal sin/seek child’s forgiveness
- Failure to listen
- Unapproachable disposition
- Deferred aggression
- Lack of encouragement/compliments
- Overprotection
- Partiality/favoritism between children
- Setting unrealistic goals/expectations
- Failure to show love/affection
- Neglect (physically, emotionally, socially, spiritually)
- Lack of standards/double standards
- Unwillingness to model desired behavior