Spanking leads to aggression…..

“To discipline and reprimand a child produces wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child” (Proverbs 29:15)
“He who heeds discipline shows the way to life,
but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.”
Proverbs 10:17
“Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates
correction is a fool.”
Proverbs 12:1
“Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you punish him with the rod, he will not die.”
Proverbs 23:13
I am sure you know where I am going with this topic. Discipline or consequences….
There was a study done recently, a 20 study that claims that “everyday” type of physical punishment raises the risk of someone being physically aggressive in their later years. I can’t say I agree with this completely. Notice they were very careful in their wording. Their study seems to be based on every day spanking.
I don’t call this discipline, I call this abuse. I call a spanking a last resort to get your child’s attention. How often have you seen children in the supermarket, or in public anywhere for that matter, and they are not paying attention to the direction given by their parents.
They do what they want, and everyone feels uncomfortable because the child is obviously out of control, but if the parent comes in, and tries to explain to the child to behave, he doesn’t care, he knows there are no consequences to his behaviour. Whether in public, or home, he’s still going to get what he wants and mom or dad won’t do anything about it.
Oh sure, they threaten with a time out, or taking away the favourite toy for a while. What good does that do.
Imagine the next step, mom or dad dares to raise his/her voice in public to stop the child from misbehaving. Now the people are even more uncomfortable…..imagine the next step, he raises his hand for a light tap on the bum…nothing hard, but hard enough to really grab the attention of the child.
Now someone that has witnessed it doesn’t agree with it, they call 911 and report it. All of s sudden, the police show up, and bring the parent outside, while the child following the other officer.
Now the child might be shocked and in tears at first, but the long term is what….I do what I want in public, and dad won’t spank me because he’ll be in trouble…
My friends, we are sending a wrong message to our children when we do this. Teenagers have no respect for adults anymore (if you don’t think I am right, how about next time you see a teenager light a cigarette and they are clearly underage, suggest they stop smoking…).
Dear friends, there are consequences to our wrong decisions. Sometimes they are blatantly obvious right away, drinking too much the night before, headache the next day. Gambling your entire paycheck in one night, no mortgage payment the next day.
Sleeping with your girlfriend when you’re 17, she’s a teenage mother 9 months later and you don’t want to take responsibility for “a mistake”.
My friend, these are what we call sins. Sins are a direct violation of God’s rules. You may be able to get away with disobeying mom and dad. But you won’t be able to get away with disobeying God. He knows all the wrongs you have done out in the open with your friends, and all the wrongs you have done in secret and wouldn’t want anyone to know. God has kept a tally of each and everyone of them.
And the consequence is hell and then the lake of fire. For eternity. Imagine burning for eternity, and the fire is never quenched, and your thirst for water is never satisfied. Friend, you don’t have to believe in God….it’s like not believing in gravity, when you jump from a 9 story building to prove gravity wrong, it’s too late, you won’t survive the fall.
Why leave it to chance, Christ died on that cross 2000 yrs ago exactly for that reason, because God knew you couldn’t deal with His “discipline”. Christ did. Repent from your sin, and throw yourself to the cross. It’s your only hope in eternity.

Here’s a link to the article.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/spanking-linked-more-aggression-kids-201203731.html