Ben Sira is about to get into trouble! Verse 1: He who loves his son will whip him often...My parents certainly were not beyond a good old fashioned whipping for the 10 of us kids. It didn't happen a lot, but we knew it could always happen.
I think Ben Sira could just as easily written: They who love their children discipline them often...because the second part of that verse is so true..."so that they may rejoice in how they turn out!" In that sense, I know Ben Sira is onto something. We have all seen the results of families and parents who have no discipline in their homes.
Discipline is a necessary part of raising good kids not to be good kids but to be good adults!
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