Beat Yo Kids!!

Proverbs 13:24(AMP): "He who spares his rod (of discipline) hates his son, but he who loves him diligently disciplines and punishes him early."

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die. (Proverbs 23:13)

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him (Proverbs 22:15).

The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother (Proverbs 29:15)

Growing up I was spanked. I use to hate it whenever I was caught doing something I wasn't suppose to do; I knew what was coming!
But spanking did teach me a few things:
1. Do NOT GET CAUGHT!!!

2. DO NOT LAUGH WHEN SIBLINGS GET SPANKED(or you will get spanked too!)

3. DO NOT LIE ABOUT DOING YOUR HOMEWORK

4. DO NOT TALK BACK!

5. WHEN YOUR TOLD TO CLEAN YOUR ROOM DO IT!

6. DO NOT RUN IT MAKES IT WORSE WHEN THEY CATCH YOU.



Time outs do not work!!! The most effective punishment was when I was spanked and had things taken away from me like, T.V, phone privileges, computer privileges(only school related work allowed), no video games, and no going to a friends house.

http://youtu.be/HRtbNKnPdNg

A new study found that spanked children may grow up happier, more successful than those who have never been hit. According to the research, children spanked up to the age of six were likely to perform better as teenagers in school and were more likely to want to go to college than their peers who had never been physically disciplined. http://pendletonpanther.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/spanked-kid/

"Seasons"

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.” Each of us is in a time and a season “under heaven.” This season must be discerned in order to make wise choices. What is your season? It may look and feel different than mine. I believe that “seasons” are a multi-level event. There is a season for an individual; a community; a region and a nation. Our world is in a “season.” Knowing what each one of these looks like will help us to determine the appropriate course of action for our lives. Is it a time of war or peace? Regardless of which season it is, as long as it is “under heaven” and on this side of eternity, it is hevel—temporary. So if the going is tuff "this too shall pass!" If everything is great, don't get too comfortable. Habel, habalim! Regardless of which season it is, God is sovereign. Life is a string of seasons that are both negative and positive in circumstance, much like war and peace, all of which God is a part. He is present in every one of them, guiding us through if we can only trust him. He is active in them and forming us through them. We must remember to “take the good with the bad.” Job said in the worst season of his life “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). “Fear the Lord” in your seasons and enjoy the work He has given you to do in them. Enjoy the blessings of today no matter what season you are in for this is your portion. Eccl.7:14 “In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.”