I don't know about my father's other children from his other wives, but when i came along he'd become devout, and i got at least a couple of good belt whippings, and by "good" i mean bad. That "spare the rod, spoil the child" rubbish he took to heart made his swinging arm all self-righteous.
When the first of our 4 children came along, i had not thought out the best course of action when it came to discipline, i probably thought that my children would be perfect; so when the time came, of course, i had a visceral reaction to my uncontrollable son and took out my belt on a couple of occasions. That made me look back at my childhood and look into modern thinking on discipline and decided that i would never use corporal punishment.
I am now certain that this barbarism sanctioned by the Bible, does no good and is akin to flogging. It only leaves negative effects and i knew that the only chance i had for a normal relationship with my son would be to discipline without humiliation. Once your children know what is expected of them, the rest is maintenance. Strict disciplinarians should not have children, anyway; kids break and lose things, get things dirty, and sticky, and they disobey. It's what they do. God is as strict a disciplinarian as you can get, and look what happened to his children, according to the Bible.
But who wrote these words? That is the question. This "spare the rod, spoil the child" and this story of God's punishment for A&E's sin, who wrote this? Was it our creator, our supposedly loving Father?
"Dude, listen, i'm busy, got a universe to run, maybe several universi, and you just know they're
going to be spinning in different directions. So, I want you to write the story of man and Earth.... I know, I know, we got off on the wrong foot, a bit of shaky start there, but this book will be the start of the healing; it'll be huge, you'll see. Here are the basic facts.... Write!"
Or was it man's imagination, barbaric, superstitious, often small-minded but imaginative man? The machinations of thinkers concerned with the growing number of cities popping up, "children" that needed guidence, control. Because when a large number of people get together they become a force, and it's own morality, unlike small bands of nomads.
When the first of our 4 children came along, i had not thought out the best course of action when it came to discipline, i probably thought that my children would be perfect; so when the time came, of course, i had a visceral reaction to my uncontrollable son and took out my belt on a couple of occasions. That made me look back at my childhood and look into modern thinking on discipline and decided that i would never use corporal punishment.
I am now certain that this barbarism sanctioned by the Bible, does no good and is akin to flogging. It only leaves negative effects and i knew that the only chance i had for a normal relationship with my son would be to discipline without humiliation. Once your children know what is expected of them, the rest is maintenance. Strict disciplinarians should not have children, anyway; kids break and lose things, get things dirty, and sticky, and they disobey. It's what they do. God is as strict a disciplinarian as you can get, and look what happened to his children, according to the Bible.
But who wrote these words? That is the question. This "spare the rod, spoil the child" and this story of God's punishment for A&E's sin, who wrote this? Was it our creator, our supposedly loving Father?
"Dude, listen, i'm busy, got a universe to run, maybe several universi, and you just know they're
going to be spinning in different directions. So, I want you to write the story of man and Earth.... I know, I know, we got off on the wrong foot, a bit of shaky start there, but this book will be the start of the healing; it'll be huge, you'll see. Here are the basic facts.... Write!"
Or was it man's imagination, barbaric, superstitious, often small-minded but imaginative man? The machinations of thinkers concerned with the growing number of cities popping up, "children" that needed guidence, control. Because when a large number of people get together they become a force, and it's own morality, unlike small bands of nomads.
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