You want your kids to grow up knowledgeable about Scripture, but you don't want then to hate it by associating Bible memory with punishment.
God's prescription of teaching Scripture....
Deuteronomy 6:4-9“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
They nearly lost me with all that, it was a very strict school. I did rebel well into my 30’s but something kept holding me back from really going down that path. As I said I still have issues with certain types of Baptist to this day, but don’t really hold a grudge I just disagree strongly with some of their beliefs and behaviors. Other Baptists are fine by me, half my family is or was, just not that particular denomination.
No fine line. That is b.s.. You don’t hurt your kids in God’s name. Better to be an atheist.