Chapter 19.
How to bring up one's children in every punishment and in the fear of God
And if God grants somebody children, sons or daughters, the parents should take good care of their children, and supply their needs, and bring them up in good punishment, and teach them fear of God, and good manners, and every propriety. And according to the time, and the children, and their age, they should be taught crafts: father should instruct sons, and mother daughters, according to their merits and inclinations.
And children should be loved and preserved, and saved through fear, being taught and punished, and judged and wounded.
Punish children in their youth, and they will comfort you in your old age. And you should guard their bodily purity, and against every sin, like your own eye or you soul. For the parents themselves will answer for the children's sins committed through parents' negligence at the Last Judgment. And if children are not cared for, and are not punished by their parents, and sin, or do evil, then both for parents and children it will be a sin from God, and the reproach and jeering from people, and the waste to their fortune, and grief to themselves, and shame and sale [to pay fines] from the judges....
**Punish children in their youth, and they will comfort you in your old age. And you should guard their bodily purity, and against every sin, like your own eye or you soul. For the parents themselves will answer for the children's sins committed through parents' negligence at the Last Judgment.**
Very good advice!