Spanking, is it biblical?

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Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Plethora? That's something of an exaggeration. I can find a plethora of scriptures about parenting, and Christian principles that should guide them--but not a plethora about spanking.

The overall gist of scripture is to treat children fairly, to give them good things, to love them unconditionally, to be merciful and compassionate, and to treat the "little ones" with extra care. To bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Nurture - paideia...tutorage, that is, education or training; by implication disciplinary correction: - chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture.

Admonition - nouthesia...calling attention to, that is, (by implication) mild rebuke or warning: - admonition.

Excellent...

The problem is often parents who don't pay attention to their kids until they're REALLY being bad--and then they spank the fire out of them. All well and good--but it would be better if you would supervise them more, and guide them on a more constant basis, instead of waiting until they really misbehave to set them back in line.

Now this is one of my pet peeves. I see parents who don't spank their kids because they did wrong... they spank them because their children made them angry and they are mad.

The child may have done the same thing a dozen times but THIS TIME... it made mama or daddy mad and WHAP!!!!

There must be consistency or nothing is learned. How is the kid to know what was wrong when you let them do it a dozen times and then exploded on them because you are in a bad mood right now?