Corporal Punishment Of Children

 

          In the 1940s some psychologists and other so-called "experts" began teaching that it is harmful and abusive to use corporal punishment to discipline children and you should not teach your children about religion and morality until they are much older, and along with this the idea that children should have everything their parents did not has become popular. Reality is that corporal punishment of children as discipline helps children develop character, conscience, and self-discipline, and the religious education of children should start early. (Consider Proverbs 22:6, 15; 23:13-14; 29:15, 17; Isaiah 28:9; 2 Timothy 3:15) It should be noted that these were not parents or grandparents sharing wisdom gained through experience, they were “experts” pushing unproved theories, and as years and decades passed these theories kept gaining popularity so that we now have a large segment of the "adult" population that were undisciplined and spoiled to the point of replacing reality and critical thinking with delusions and wishful thinking and behaving like spoiled children in pursuit of utopian dreams. The Generation Gap and the youth culture of rebellion and decadence that characterized the 1960s and continue today were inevitable results of multitudes of spoiled brats coming of age and influencing other youths. For decades it has been common for folks to wonder what happened to the younger generations, but this is not a mystery. What is amazing is that so many parents never use corporal punishment to correct bad behaviour, do not teach their children social conduct and respect for elders, do not give their children responsibilities (chores), do not provide religious and moral guidance at home, and encourage their children to limit their associations to immature people, and then do not understand why the resulting teenagers act like small children in larger bodies. (Consider Proverbs 22:6; 29:15; 13:20)

The FORGOTTEN ART Of Disciplining Your Kids....( James Evans Edition )