Proverbs 1:8

My son. A common form of address from a teacher to his pupils, and may be so used here; but the mention of mother suggests a more personal relation, as if Solomon were passing on to his son the fruits of his own experience. Accompanying the fear of the Lord is respectful obedience to parents. “Instruction” includes the thought of discipline, suggesting that the father should be the ultimate authority in the home. Nevertheless the mother usually has most to do with the training of the children, and it is often the memory of mother’s gentle guidance that holds a youth to the path of right or brings him back when he has strayed.