Do You Hate Your Children?

Proverbs 13:24 "24 He who withholds his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently."

We must train babies to be kind and loving, we do not have to train them to be mean and selfish.

Why?

Because babies are born sinful, full of self. They must be trained not to poke in the doggies eyes or pull the cats hair. I have met two year olds who were horrible to be around, they were not just untrained, they were down right mean because there had been no training in their lives.

I once saw a four year old slapping his Daddy in the face for not buying him a candy bar. The man, feeling somewhat embarrassed, turn to me in line and said, "what can you do", while giggling. My response to him was, "you better spank him for disrespecting you or he will be punching you out when he is bigger than you."

The man in front of me in line didn't know how to respond, he turned back around and continued to ignore and put up with the terrible disrespect and defiance of that little brat.

Interesting isn't it, parents are afraid to be seen as the bad guy by disciplining their children, but can't see that their children are an embarrassment to them because of their evil.

People actually think that children should be given a pass for evil behavior because they are children. These same parents end up in a life of utter turmoil and frustration when these children become adults and refuse to move out and make their own way in the world. They are not assets to their parents, they are burdens and the parents facilitated it by their own lack of courage to do the right thing.

Proverbs 13:24 "24 He who withholds his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently."