APPLICATION OF CORRECT DISCIPLINE IN THE HOME

It is not easy for a loving parent to discipline a child, but it is necessary. The greatest responsibility God gives parents is the nurture and guidance of their children in the way they should go. Lack of discipline puts parents love in question because it shows a lack of concern for the character development of their children. Disciplining children prevents long-range disaster. However all our worldly efforts cannot direct children in the way they should go, provide them with discernment or make them wise; God fearing parents encourage their children to seek for God's wisdom above all else! Sadly, today parents do not adhere to this. They are without the love of God in their hearts and are restrained by the foolishness of worldly Counsellors to apply discipline to their children.

What is the answer for today's unruly youth? I believe it would be good if legislation could be enacted to make it possible for a nice kind but strong Policeman to do something these kids have probably never had: Give them a jolly good hiding with the birch for it is too late for them. We need to restore the same system of discipline as was accepted and applied in our schools and in the home. If two teachers were present or two Policemen effected the discipline deemed to be appropriate then satisfactory protection could be set up and do this before things get more out of hand than they are already.

I kicked up a fuss when two Policemen took one of my sons and actually gave him a very nasty pasting - aged 17. They did this because he snorted at the Police when they walked past him at a Mardi Gras. When he came home 1.30am in the morning we were sitting up for him and he was covered in blood, his nose bloodied and cuff marks on his wrists. I called in the Commonwealth Medical Officer and stood over him while he inspected his wounds. I took him to our own Doctor the next morning to verify the damage. I then made a thorough exhibition of myself at the Central Police Station in Canberra, Australia while I verbally slammed the coppers who carried out the dirty deed. Today, I am truly grateful for the pasting they applied to him. My son's behaviour improved out of sight. He never reoffended in this way again. He is a Christian today, a great husband and a very hard worker. His brother who got off with everything both at home, school and everywhere else is a disaster.

Give the Police more powers to discipline these errant kids and also tan their hides. Re-educate these stupid, Godless, so-called professionals who find it satisfactory to foist their secular beliefs on mums and dads who themselves do not "tie the Word of God on the fingers of their children". Such Godless counsellors are good about advising people with principles and practices which are similar to the disastrous theories of Doctor Spock who himself said he had got it all wrong. Time to change and recognise that their worldly psychological theories are wrong. Spare the rod and spoil the child.

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