| Father's Day is on Sunday, June 15, 2008. The | | | | Lord." This is what the Bible says about a fathers |
| Wikipedia definition of Father's Day is a "secular | | | | responsibility in raising their children. The negative side |
| celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century | | | | of this verse indicates that a father is not to foster the |
| to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood | | | | bad passions of their children by severity, injustice, |
| and male parenting, and to honor and commemorate | | | | partiality, or unreasonable exercise of authority. Bad |
| father's and forefathers." Father's Day became a | | | | conduct towards a child will only serve to nurture evil in |
| national holiday in 1966 when President Lyndon | | | | their heart. The positive side is to educate them, bring |
| Johnson signed a proclamation declaring the 3rd | | | | them up and develop their conduct in all of life by the |
| Sunday of June as the day. Mrs. John Dodd of | | | | instruction and admonition of the Lord. |
| Washington first proposed the idea in 1909 when she | | | | This is the training of the child or the whole process of |
| wanted to honor her father, William Smart. Her mother | | | | educating and discipline. The word "provoke" means to |
| died in childbirth when their sixth child was born. He | | | | irritate or rub the wrong way. This is done by the |
| was left to raise his children by himself and after Mrs. | | | | wrong spirit and by wrong methods, for example, |
| Dodd became an adult she realized the selflessness | | | | unreasonableness, sternness, cruel demands and |
| her father had shown as a single parent. Father's Day | | | | unnecessary restrictions. These things would cause |
| has become a day to not only honor our fathers, but | | | | bad reactions, make him less affectionate and make |
| all men who act as a father figure. | | | | him feel he can't please his parents. A wise parent |
| What does the Bible say about being a father? | | | | wants to make obedience desirable through love and |
| Proverbs 22:6-11 reads, "Train up a child in the way he | | | | gentleness. Christian discipline is needed to prevent |
| should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from | | | | children from growing up without reverence for God, |
| it." To train, indicates the first instruction that a parent | | | | respect for their parents authority, knowledge of |
| gives to a child; which is his early education. Ephesians | | | | Christian standards and self-control. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 |
| 6:4 is a summary of instruction to parents, represented | | | | says, "All scripture is given of God and is profitable for |
| by the father, in a negative and positive way. "And | | | | teaching, reproving, correcting and instruction in |
| now a word to you fathers, don't make your children | | | | righteousness; that the man (or woman) of God may |
| angry by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them | | | | be completely equipped for all good works." This is |
| up with the discipline and instruction approved by the | | | | what the Bible says about being a father. |