Yeah you were never spanked and look at how you turned out. You're obviously full of pride.
Spanking
Ryan Nguyen
Chase Russell
If you don't, you're demonstrating hatred for the child in the sense that you're not giving them what's best. How can you read the proverb any other way?
Blake Cox
Discipline is more important. This has been my opinion on the situation from both the Bible and life experience. You can spank the winnie the pooh out of a child and teach them nothing, or you can spare your hand from violence and have very well adjusted children.
Punishments that educate, have some prolonged effect, and possibly involve forcing the child to take positive steps to humbly right the wrong they have committed, are much more painful than simply getting your ass tanned, as are remembered for longer as a result. For instance, my dad always relates the story that when he kept on crying for chocolate when he was 4, his mom went and bought unsweetened baker's chocolate and made him eat it all. To this day he hates chocolate, also there was less complaining thereafter.
Also a way to inculcate good behaviour is to tell them before you go to a store that they aren't getting candy or a new toy, or a pet dog or whatever, and that if they try to make a scene then you're going to take them home immediately. Make them manage expectations in other words, also keep them away from technology until they are older, and limit it. Make them always come to dinner rather than eating some random place with no social element.
Sebastian Bailey
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Tell me again how love means "beating your child with a stick".
Jackson Perry
Should be avoided, but if the child won't listen then hitting them wont kill them.
Of course it should be done in discipline and love for the child, not out of anger, do not give Satan a foothold.
Mason Ward
Bingo.
Brayden Nguyen
Also, yes "He who spares the rod hates his son, but he that loves him disciplines him diligently." It doesn't say "therefore use the rod frequently" but rather diligent discipline. See
Dominic Ortiz
Speaking from experience is not speaking with pride. How many children do you have?
Nicholas Watson
Answer: do you think the proverb is just wrong?
Joseph Bennett
Answer: how many children do you have?
Is the proverb wrong? Not for the time it was written, no. It was important to maintain strong discipline in a household that needed farmers and warriors. There is a time for everything and that time has passed.