Home School Heartbeat Radio Program
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How do you respond when your child needs correction? If you’re struggling to discipline wisely and effectively, stay tuned for insights from a veteran father. Today on Home School Heartbeat, host Mike Farris examines the purpose of discipline to shed light on its practice. Mike Farris: If this would have happened about 15 years ago, our son would have gotten a whale of a spanking. But I didn’t touch him. I didn’t really even criticize him, much less yell at him. I simply told him that he was never to shoot his airsoft gun in the house for any reason whatsoever. I could tell that our son was terribly embarrassed about all of this. I knew that he knew he had done the wrong thing. My mature evaluation was that this was all that he needed to hear. I can’t remember the last time I spanked any of my children. Our pattern of spanking our kids have changed over the years. It’s plausible that our oldest daughter Christy got more spankings all by herself than the three youngest did all together. Our children always believed that there was a credible threat that they might be spanked. But I had the tendency when I was younger to believe that spanking pretty much said it all. I indentified the offense—you did X. You knew that X was wrong. You did it anyway. Therefore, I'm spanking you. But I don’t think that is the same as teaching a child. That is more like the execution of a penal sentence. Every offense requires real teaching. Not every offense requires a spanking. Next time I’ll talk to you more about teaching. I’m Mike Farris.
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