Proverbs 4:14-15
Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not proceed in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not go on it; Turn away from it and pass on.
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Solomon wrote those words so very long ago, words he certainly had received from his heavenly Father, but may have very well first heard from his natural father King David. He had written quite some time earlier that the Lord leads us in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. {Ps.23:3

David had a wonderful love for God's words and would have surely known the instruction given to fathers in the 'foremost command'. A command that they are to teach those words written for all time in Deuteronomy to their children when they are sitting in their house, when they walk by the way and when they lie down and when they rise up. {Deu.6:6-7} Which pretty much covers it all, and Solomon knew it! He would write a psalm in the fashion of his father David that children are a gift from the Lord. {Ps.127:3} 

However, as with all the gifts that we receive from our God, we are entrusted with them for His plan and purpose—for His name’s sake as the Word states. {Ps.23:3} So we bear the responsibility, a blessed one, of caring for and using His gifts as He instructs and leads us! Solomon also wrote that parents are to train up children in the way they should go. {Pr.22:6} And that my dear brothers and sisters is not accomplished by sending them off to a government school where they will learn the ways of the world {Jer.10:2} and where Jesus is not even welcome! The apostle Paul also emphatically dealt with that when he wrote that fathers are to bring up their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. {Eph.6:4} 

One of the primary problems today—in addition to the fact that family life seems to be broken almost everywhere we look—is that the world now seems to have everybody convinced that discipline is about punishment rather than loving training in righteousness. Please keep in mind the fact that those whom the Lord loves He disciplines. {Heb.12:6} You cannot be a disciple without discipline and that is a fact not only for your children but for all of God's children—you and I, not to put too fine a point on it. We all have to walk that path of righteousness! We have to, we must, draw near to God to worship Him not with lip service and tradition learned by rote, {Is.29:13} but just as Jesus told the woman at the well: 

“But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."  (John 4:23-24)

DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD