One of the most difficult parts of raising children today is when and how do we discipline. It may have been easier for parents when I was a child and bad behavior was greeted with switch across the backside, lack of supper, or a bar of soap vigorously applied to the child’s mouth. Spare the rod and spoil the child was an accepted norm. Two generations later and the horrors of child abuse have taught us that discipline and abuse are separated by only a thin line and that parents need to find new ways to teach discipline without violence in the many forms it takes. The world will be a better place because of this evolution I believe.
Yet, discipline is a fact of life, and if loving parents don’t discipline, the child will be disciplined later by an indifferent world.
The key I believe is to always act out of love whether the discipline is of a child or an adult like me. What do y’all think?
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