Recently I read a quote of Cotton Mather’s where he imagined children on Judgment Day speaking to their parents who had neglected their duties. It makes for sobering reading and is a reminder of how serious our role is.
You should have taught us the things of God, and did not; you should have restrained us from sin and corrected us, and you did not; you were the means of our original corruption and guiltiness, and yet you never showed any competent care that we might be delivered from it… Woe unto us that we had such …careless parents.
Cotton Mather quoted in Disciplines of a Godly Family by Kent and Barbara Hughes