Our children are humans and deserve to be treated respectfully. Discipline doesn’t include raging, screaming, abusing, neglecting, humiliating, or shaming our kids. God never treats us like that. That sort of discipline never “produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.
Interpretation
Children should be treated with respect and love, rather than through harsh discipline techniques.
This quote emphasizes the importance of treating children as deserving of respect and dignity. It critiques harsh disciplinary methods such as yelling and humiliation, suggesting that true discipline should promote positive outcomes like righteousness and peace, reflecting the compassionate approach that God takes with humanity.
In practice
In a parenting workshop, you might use this quote to discuss respectful discipline strategies.
You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they will be a little bigger then they are today. This day is a gift. Breathe and notice. Smell and touch them; study their faces and little feet and pay attention. Relish the charms of the present. Enjoy today mama. It will be over before you know it.
Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.
There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
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