EXACTLY what SHE is doing to those of us whose children inherited our not so easy to raise temperament.
If she had easy to raise kids, more power to her.
Those of us graced with strong willed tyrants needed to use stronger means of persuasion to get our kids to obey.
nope nope
not what I was doing metmom
what I was doing was saying that the Bible does not have as a primary part of Christianity that you need to physically punish children. I can’t stand it when people act like that is more important than love and patience.
Oh yeah, what your dad did? How about going with you and reading you a bedtime story, wouldn’t that have been nicer than spanking you back up the stairs? I bet your mom was not happy, here she works all day and he has to come home and make things ugly right at bed time, great.
I officially ride the fence, how’s that for an emphatic maybe. Here’s what I said once I learned about what she was doing.
Well, quite frankly I hadn’t heard your own story and I can understand the concern of the “monsters.”
If God is truly moving you to “total nonviolence” then God will also bless it. BUT — I think it’s too easy to paint others’ somewhat different styles as “monstrous.” The touchstone of balance in chastising children is Ephesians 6:4 — “fathers, do not exasperate” (or provoke to rage) “your children, lest they lose heart.” The idea is not to get them to fear YOU personally, but to fear your specific displeasure at their misbehavior, if sweet reason is not enough to reach them. If the reaction is to burst into blind rage then you may have overdone it and you should moderate.
So I thoroughly ride the fence on this one.