“Prayers, spoken with pain, are effective. If the child does something very serious, the parents must intervene appropriately. If it isn’t so serious, then they can overlook it a little, so as to not provoke the child and make the situation worse by causing the child to distance himself from them. They must pray to Christ and Panaghia to protect their child.”
(Elder St Paisios in ‘Passions and Virtues’)