what we want to give to you, too, so that you can give it to your children in turn. Our salvation (and our kids’ as well) is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. Grace alone. Most of us are painfully aware that we’re not perfect parents. We’re also deeply grieved that we don’t have perfect kids. But the remedy to our mutual imperfections isn’t more law, even if it seems to produce tidy or polite children. Christian children (and their parents) don’t need to learn to be “nice.” They