There is danger in the popular chant of our day. "Spare the rod and spoil the child," it says. Their argument is that their parents whipped them, and they turned out okay.
Oh, what are we teaching each other, as society? That lacing a child is normal? Beat the children, beat them!
I look at the society I live in -- we live in -- and see so many children scared for life by the anger of a parent. I read news stories of children who received an angry bop on the head and died. No, we should not be teaching each other to beat our children. It is one of the most pervasive mantras of our time. It is one of the most damaging. Nothing is so precious as a child
Spare the rod and instead correct with love. A whip across the back of a child scars more than their flesh. A child cannot escape his parents (unless the child runs away). Nowhere to run to, no where to hide? Face the storms of hell with no hope of refuge? A child can quickly turn to feeling this way. I am not satisfied with the argument that your parents beat you, and you turned out okay. There are too many children who didn't turn out "okay." This is about them, about the ones who were scared for life.
Instead of the rod, try the rein.
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