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1 | beating your child with a rod | Prov 23:13 | Melaine | 25609 | ||
There is some verse somewhere in the bible stating to beat your child with a rod. Should people actually beat with a rod or ruler or stick. I would never but know of some people who do based on this bible verse. please let me know. | ||||||
2 | beating your child with a rod | Prov 23:13 | ThomasTheNonDoubter | 26273 | ||
Sounds like they're following the verse and not meditating on the meaning of it. I get that if you spare the rod you will spoil the child. I wouldn't take it literally by going to a hardware store and buying a 1/2 inch rod of steel and start wailing on the disobediant child, but I bet some people come close to that. I would use that scripture to indicate that when God's wisdom in you determines that correction is necessary and the spirit of rebellion is evident, deliberate, nonangry, physical correction, will drive those demons far from that rebious child. Christian bookstores have a book called Parenting is not for cowards, which goes into depth on this principle. Can't remember the author. I remember one funny saying. "When that 3 year old draws a line in the sand and looks up at you and dares you to step across it for a fight, don't dissapoint him" | ||||||
3 | beating your child with a rod | Prov 23:13 | Hank | 26283 | ||
Thomas, there is a vast difference between proper parental discipline and child abuse, of course, and I, as a father of three, know something whereof I speak. And a 1/2 inch rod of steel is by far not the only implement for abuse. For example, a couple of days ago, just as I was leaving a retail store, I met a woman who was entering. Behind her, milling around just outside the sliding door was a little boy, perhaps 6 or 7 years old. The woman, obviously his mother, raised her voice and began yelling at the little boy, cursing him in language no adult should use in the presence of another adult, much less a small child. The last words I heard from her were, "What the h--- is your problem?" Well, it's clear to me that the one with the bigger problem was the mother, not the child. And it's equally clear that abuse does not always have to be physical. Verbal abuse can be as damaging and potentially can inflict even greater permanent damage than physical. Abusing a child is not correction. It is simply abuse and is indefensible. Letting a child go undisciplined when discipline is clearly indicated is also indefensible. Proper discipline tempered with love, patience and reason is the duty of parents. I believe the "rod" of Proverbs 23:13 is properly understood as being what my mother used to call a "switch". It warmed up my sitting-down place, I can tell you, but the damage it inflicted wasn't mortal! I've survived for 66 years. --Hank | ||||||
4 | beating your child with a rod | Prov 23:13 | ThomasTheNonDoubter | 26431 | ||
I'm in total agreement with you hank. I was subject to a fair share of that verbal abuse growing up. Sounds like your children aren't going to turn out too bad :-) I steered my recipient to the "Parenting is not for cowards" book, written by Dr. James Dobson. One of several books on raising children. I think the book could provide a lot more help than I could provide. | ||||||