We should make a point of teaching our kids that the Bible contains the truth about how life works. One of the greatest parenting benefits the Bible provides is a solid foundation for teaching children what's right. When we teach our children that there's a right and a wrong way of doing things, we imply that there are unchanging principles and absolute truths that govern life. If, on the other hand, we teach them without substantiating our claim that what we're teaching is truth, that it comes from God, we set the stage for someone else to come along and convince them of the opposite. If God didn't create things to function in a certain way, then everything is random and a matter of opinion, and telling our children that they have to be honest becomes merely our opinion of what they should do.
If there's no absolute right or wrong, then our children could decide that lying consistently makes more sense to them than truth telling and is the way that they want to live their lives. If truth is subjective and random, who are we to tell our children how they should behave? It's our opinion against theirs. We may tell htem, "This is how it's going to be as ong as you're under my roof," but that doesn't prepare them for life; it just prolongs the inevitable.
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