Public Schools (Goals 2000, and such.)

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>Having said that, I don't think any one here was advocating child abuse, but
>loving discipline.  The advice I've been given by pastors has been: 1) Use
>corporal punishment, ie. spanking, for direct disobedience only. 2) Use a flat
>paddle or some object that won't leave marks on the child. 3)Never discipline 
>a child when you are too angry to control yourself.    Like one of the brothers
>said, child abuse usually (if not always) occurs due to anger, often because
>the parent failed to address the problem in its early stages and waited until
>they "blew up".
>
>Speaking of child abuse, I think its child abuse to fail to discipline a child.


Thank you Sis. Southgate, you said it much better than I ever could. It is
rebelliousness than must be punished with corporal punishment not every
infraction. I have often said that if we judged God and how He chastens His
children according to modern ideas that He would be considered the greatest
child abuser of all.

There is no pleasure in disciplining children, only pleasure in the people
who turn out as the result of discipline.

Frank