Out of Control Children and Culture

The modern government school system is out of control. I knew this was going to happen as long as "psychologized" teachers would not let go of the self esteem teaching to embrace God's ways.

Back in the day when I was young the entire culture agreed on boundaries and discipline for children. Even the neighbors were free to spank a child who was disobeying. Then when the child got home the parent wacked them again as reinforcement for the offended party.

Now we have brain washed liberals running the school system. They have seen the carnage of the self esteem teaching unable to figure out what failed.

They see the out of control children and assign foolish ideals to the problem. They think that the child is just "hurting" so they act out. The problem is that the parents of the children are living sinfully while indulging their children by lack of training as well as giving them everything they want. In short, the child is dictating to the household instead of the parent actually training the child.

Sadly many parents are just as immature as the children they are raising. The parent and the child are out of control. Why would this be? The problem lies in the teaching that everyone must follow their feelings instead of truth.

Many people are leaning into their feelings while justifying their evil behavior because their feelings led them to their actions.

Luke 6:44-45 "…44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, people do not gather figs from thornbushes, or grapes from brambles. 45 The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. "

A "good person" does not do evil things. Only an evil person does evil things.

The idea that people are only responding to their difficulties when they are naughty is based on the "Pavlov" dog experiment in which a dog is given a treat and positive feed back for doing something so the dog keeps doing that thing to get the treat.

We are not animals, animals operate from instinct, but human beings operate based on their sinful nature. Punishment for wrong doing trains a child not to act badly no matter what they are feeling.

Proverbs 22:6
"6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

How do we train a child according to the Word of God? Simple!

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

Proverbs 22:15
"15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of discipline will remove it far from him."

There is nothing in God's word about "time out" or any other human devised method of dealing with disobedience and rebellion. God's way is simple!

It is child abuse according to God to refuse to spank a child who will not obey. It is child abuse to place a child in a room to simmer over his isolation. The worse form of torture is to be isolated from loved ones. It is better to spank the child and allow them to return immediately to the family.

Isolation is a form of torture, but a spanking is corrective and allows the child to sense that they are done with the punishment while everyone continues to still love them.

Bottom Line: God's way is always best, no matter what the rest of the culture is saying.

Let me add here too that the reason children are so out of control is because their parents are selfish and resistant to God's ways, they too are out of control.