<p>6:4- see on Eph. 5:31.</p><p><i>And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger; but nurture them in the training and instruction of the Lord</i>- This confirms that the parents and children in view are &quot;in the Lord&quot;. The balance within the verse suggests that the opposite of nurturing in the Lord is to provoke them to anger, perhaps referring to anger at a later stage in the child's life. &quot;Nurture&quot;, <i>paideia</i>, is literally 'education' or 'training'. The idea is that the Lord Jesus should educate our children; in the sense that we are to allow Him to operate through us in training them. We are to be the Lord Jesus in training our children; if we do not show them Him then we are not Him to them. We are to provide this nurture; Sunday School or church programs for kids are all very well, but the essential responsibility is with the parent. And any &quot;admonition&quot; is to be from the Lord, and not therefore motivated by a flash of anger or frustration.</p>