Child Discipline
Somehow into the very warp and woof of our modern thought-fabric there has crept the idea that “discipline is unkind.” Modern thinking, no doubt assisted by progressive pedagogy, has tempered the very word discipline with a “hard” ring.
But actually the word discipline is perfectly harmless. It comes from the word disciple. A disciple is a learner. To discipline then means simply “to make one a learner.” In other words, to discipline means “to teach”. Discipline is nothing more than a method of teaching which rewards that which is right, and punishes that which is wrong.
Now they wish to put into law that we as parents can not “discipline our children”? Each one of our daughters had the “hand of discipline applied to the seat of learning” and I for one think we have the best adult daughters a mother or father could ask for!!!
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Add comment January 22nd, 2007
