If you do not plan right now to spank your kids before you have any, then you have planned for disobedient, disrespectful kids. And you don't have to take my word for it. You can take THE Word. Proverbs 22 and Proverbs 23 are pretty clear about spanking your children in order to save them from the Evil one. I'll find the actual quotes later. Spanking is not abuse. Permissiveness is abuse. Kids with no boundaries are unhappy, scared, and insecure. I'd throw fits, too!
When Christian parents love their children enough to discipline them in the love of the Lord, there is peace in the home. Ok, not all the time, but it's better than no discipline.
We had a loving (and sometimes painful) ritual when my girls were little and still needed spanking. We would have a long hug first (and tears), then the spanking, then another hug. And that line about it hurting the parents MORE than the kids is really true. The pain your child feels is temporary. It hurts back there because there's more fat back there. But it does no real damage physically. But years later, when the memory of the actual pain is gone, there remains a subconscious thought of "hmm, last time I did 'that' it hurt. better not do that again...". But the pain of having to inflict harm on your children hurts before and after and later if it has to happen again.
Let me know if that doesn't make sense.
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