A little boy was sitting at the table in the kitchen looking gloomy and sour: he had just been punished. Suddenly, he asked his mother, "God can do anything He wants, can't He?" To which the mother replied, "Of course." Then the boy asked rhetorically "God doesn't have any parents, does He?"

Have you ever felt that way? Probably. At some time or another, we have all felt terribly hemmed in and beaten down by our supposedly loving parents.

For those of us who have had children of our own and are concerned that they "turn out right," there is another feeling - we have loved them enough to sometimes get tough with them. We know that a child allowed to run wild is a child allowed to run amok, and we do not want that to happen. There are certain things that we insist be done...like going to schoo…