Child Discipline

Discipline and Spanking

This Article is a frank discussion about what the Bible has to say about the use of spanking. If you want your child to fail in life, to despise his parents and go from job to job and marriage to marriage, do not read this article.

A tragic system of thought has invaded our nation, our states, our communities, our schools and most tragically, our homes. It is a monster that creeps around from house to house seeking to devour each household with ideas that are foreign to truth, God's truth. It seeks to convince us that we can reason children into compliance with good behavioral standards.

The reasoning I often hear is "if you use violence you teach the child to be violent", and "spanking is old fashioned", and "it has been proven that spanking is bad for children".

All the while the number of homes for the emotionally troubled is growing rapidly, our children are being fed pills like popcorn prescribed by doctors for school children diagnosed with every sort of behavioral disorder imaginable.

Children are becoming parents in homes, putting parents on notice "it will be my way" they say in attitude and action. All the while parents continue to seek parenting help in every square of modern physiology, buying books they agree with and seeking help from those who have led them astray to begin with.

Don't get me wrong. This generation is providing my children a wonderful opportunity, they along with others who have disciplined lives are the leaders of today and the future. Looked upon for direction and purpose in life. Most of their peers from high school and college are squandering their lives and marriages, sacrificed on the alter of "Modern Parenting Techniques".

Look around you, check out parents in stores, read the current trends in child physiology, see how many children, especially in the inner city are kept on prescription drugs. Ever wonder why this is not a problem in third world countries where parents have not become enlightened to the new parenting syndrome.

God has said we will be punished for doing wrong, not just horrible evil but for what we do that is immoral. He has told us to punish our children for what they do that is wrong, for not obeying us, for not obeying Him.

If a child is never punished for what they do wrong, how will they pay the debt they owe? How will they ever have a clear conscience, how will they feel good about themselves? How will they release the bitterness built up against their parents as they find themselves tormented by their own inability to cope? How will they learn to sit and listen to a teacher without a pill to calm them down?

Punishment is important, it is God's way and it absolutely has to be a part of our parenting. I am not talking about beating. I am talking about disciplined spanking, not with your hand, with a paddle, a wooden spoon. Use something which will not injure anything but their pride and stubbornness.

Back up your word with action, when you tell your child no, and they do it anyway, spank. Do not spank when you are angry, spank after you have calmed down. Spank because you love them enough to provide them with a chance to make it in this world.

For those who want to argue, argue with your Creator, He made up the rules, I am just passing along the message. Check out what He has to say in these verses.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it. ~ It is a fathers responsibility to make sure that mom and dad train a child, in the absence of a father mothers must fill in.

Ephesians 6:4 And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. ~ To provoke means to do things that make them angry. Try letting them have their way and see if they do not become angry.

Proverbs 19:18 Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death. ~ Will a child brought up without Godly discipline come to Christ? Will you place a bet against God and leave them to modern child raising techniques?

Proverbs 13:24 He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently. ~ You know what this means? It means what you think it means!

Proverbs 23:13-14 Do not hold back discipline from the child, Although you beat him with the rod, he will not die. You shall beat him with the rod, And deliver his soul from Sheol. ~ It is punishment with a rod that keeps a child out of hell. How will your child ever repay his dept without punishment?

Proverbs 29:17 Correct your son, and he will give you comfort; He will also delight your soul. ~ Want to be a proud parent, want people to desire the company of you and your children, discipline them, spank them as required, let them pay their dept to you and God now so they will not have to pay it in the future to society (spell PRISON).

Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him. ~ Believe the wisest man that ever lived, your child has foolishness bound up in him, even a two year old is a little sinner, believe God for this wisdom.

Proverbs 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother. ~ Mothers, do not think this is a dad only thing. We are called as parents, that is plural, to discipline our children. By the way, notice how the proverbs connect discipline and spanking. Also wisdom with spanking. Also peace of mind and success of the child.

Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish son is a grief to his mother. ~ Think a son or daughter who is a failure in life will not bring you grief? His or Her failure will at least in some part be your responsibility!

Proverbs 15:20 A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother. ~ Think I was overboard in my reasoning, spank your child or they will despise you, look around you, the children that despise their mothers and fathers are everywhere. These same children will go on to be nothing, let me repeat, nothing. Employers do not want them, their spouse will not want them and you will endure much grief putting up with them.

Notice this is all connected to spanking!

I could go on but if God's word will not convince you, nothing will. Not even a man raised from the dead, (after all he is the author).