Leonard Sax argues that the key to transferring your values to your children is your “parental authority”. “Authority” is a heavy word. We might think that parents earn their authority by being heavy-handed with their children. But that is not what Sax means by “parental authority”.

Leonard Sax, family physician, psychologist, and an insightful analyst of modern culture, argues that our surrounding culture works against us because (a) it teaches our children to value their same-age peers more than their parents and (b) it teaches us to treat our children like grown-ups.

Leonard Sax, family physician, psychologist, and an insightful analyst of modern culture, has written an eye-opening book that can help us understand why we are not transferring our religious values to our children.