Rebellion and Disrespect are Close Companions

In our day of nearly total rebellion, many adult children are rejecting their parents, and in so doing, they are training the grandchildren by example to dislike their grandparents. They are even withholding the grandchildren from the grandparents.

When adult children keep the grandchildren away from their grandparents, it is often because they want the grandchildren to believe a certain way about them and do not want them to find out what they have been taught is not true.

There is a fear that the grandchildren will love the grandparents and enjoy them, this would be a big blow to the disrespectful parents of the grandchildren.

What they don't realize is that in training the children to dislike, ignore, or disrespect in any way the grandparents, is that one day it will be them who are ignored, disrespected and demeaned. Since the training by example was disrespect, the mentality of disrespect will permeate the lives of those who observed it.

There is no way to train a child to be disrespectful in just one area and respectful in another. Disrespect is a character flaw that will run through all their lives toward anyone who does not measure up to their own idea of good.

2 Timothy 3:1-5
Difficult Times Will Come
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."

The idea of valuing people, loving and accepting, and even appreciating who they are is nearly non-existent in the last days apostacy. People are basing their treatment of others on how much those others praise them, not on the value of the person who is loved, or feigned love.

Love now is conditional to how much we feel special when with that person, not on how much we can make someone else feel special to us.

I am encountering many people who are describing terrible disrespect from adult children and their grandchildren for no good reason.