LEV291 Avoid Antagonizing Your Son: The Torah says, "Every person must respect his mother and father" [this verse]. Literally translated, this verse reads "Every person, his mother and father, they must respect," whereby tira'u, "they must respect," is written in the plural. It is as if the phrase "they must respect" refers to the son, his father, and his mother – – the three of them must respect each other. Thus, parents should not infuriate and antagonize their son to the point that he loses control of himself and rebels against them [Sefer Chasidim, paragraph 565].