<p>3:21 <i>Fathers, do not provoke your children, in order that they are not discouraged</i>- See on :19 <em>Be not bitter</em>. These commandments are regarding believing families. The discouragement in view was presumably in the context of the children growing up encouraged by their fathers to believe and be baptized. But endless provocation of children in domestic life will only discourage them from that path.</p>