cLARK AND jAIN ON pARENTING

Clark and Jain note,

For children of a Christian parent, God expects those parents to raise the children up as believers, as those who have begun walking along that path and engaging in that rhythm. God says in Scripture that he holds every person accountable for his own sin, so the children must truly participate in the process of repentance unto faithful obedience if they are to know Christ. However, it is not for the parents to evaluate the authenticity of the children's participation but instead to cast their faith on the promises of God, who says in Proverbs 22:6 to "train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it" (ESV), and in 1 Corinthians 7:14 that the children of a believer "are holy." The parents are simply to teach the children this process of cleaving to Christ and these habits of the heart. The exact path will be different for every covenant child.

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Clark, Kevin and Ravi Scott Jain. The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education. Revised ed. Camp Hill, PA: Classical Academic Press, 2019. pg. 228.