Disciplining your Children

No, I am not telling you how to discipline your kids but the government is.I read this article about how one state is banning spanking.

"Bill 234, sponsored by Delaware's Senate Majority Leader Patricia Blevins, asserts that when a "person recklessly or intentionally causes physical injury to a child through an act of abuse and/or neglect of such child" it is considered third degree child abuse and a class A misdemeanor."

No, it isn't right to punish in anger or abuse the child because he/she isn't doing what you want them to do. If you are mad with the child take time to cool down before disciplining them. The child does need to know there is a consequence in doing something wrong. My parents didn't love to spank me but I knew that if I did something that I was told not to do I would get punished. My parents were obeying the Bible.

Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him.

Proverbs 23:13-14
Do not withhold correction from a child, For if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
You shall beat him with a rod, And deliver his soul from hell.

Another way to say is:
Don't fail to discipline your children. They won't die if you spank them.

Beat might be a too strong word for spanking. The Bible isn't saying to spank your child and hurt them. How I see it is a few swats isn't going to kill them. With disciplining your children comes explaining to the child why they are getting punished. After the disciplining is finished you love and pray for your child.

Disciplining is between you, your child and God. Not everyone at the grocery store.
Explain to your child that the action that he is going is wrong and will be disciplined at a later time,at home or in private. But don't put it off.

Disciplining isn't always spanking. It could be taking away a toy they really like or not letting me go some where. I would do that for lesser punishment.

"A parent correcting his child. A tender parent can scarcely find in his heart to do this; it goes much against the grain. But he finds it is necessary; it is his duty, and therefore he dares not withhold correction when there is occasion for it (spare the rod and spoil the child); he beats him with the rod, gives him a gentle correction, the stripes of the sons of men, not such as we give to beasts. Beat him with the rod and he shall not die. The rod will not kill him; nay, it will prevent his killing himself by those vicious courses which the rod will be necessary to restrain him from. For the present it is not joyous, but grievous, both to the parent and to the child; but when it is given with wisdom, designed for good, accompanied with prayer, and blessed of God, it may prove a happy means of preventing his utter destruction and delivering his soul from hell." Matthew Henry

I am totally against school leaders, teachers or principles spanking the kids. Detention is one thing but spanking your child is a punishment parents should do.

I don't have children of my own but I am a child that was spanked and learned from it. My parents do love me and that is why they did it when I was little. I stand on what the Bible says. I know the Bible is true because God doesn't lie. This is my thoughts on this subject. I am not telling what you should do.