Article February 23, 1987 Issue

For children

How I overcame rebelling

Reid Smucker

This year when I was on a trip with my family I was angry with my parents a lot. I felt that way especially when I got into trouble and got scolded.

In our school health class we had talked about stages we might go through. They told us that for a while we might feel we didn't like adults very much and that we would feel rebellious. I remember being afraid that I would become that way, even though I had been taught that I was always God's perfect child.

On our family trip, I had been feeling angry for a long while and I was really sad and unhappy. My dad had talked to me a lot about not letting error control my thinking, and he said I should talk back to those thoughts and replace them with good ones from God. I didn't want to do that. I was angry, and I thought my parents were treating me unfairly.

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