After a session with his parents, a little boy taped to his parents\u2019 door a note that read: \u201cDear parents, Be nice to your children and they will be nice to you. Love, God.\u201d111<\/p>\n
When the Duke of Windsor was asked what impressed him most in America, he replied, \u201cthe way American parents obey their children.\u201d112<\/p>\n
The headline to one \u201cDear Abby\u201d column read, \u201cMom spares the rod and earns child\u2019s contempt.\u201d The letter read:<\/p>\n
Dear Abby,<\/p>\n
My problem is my mother. She\u2019s too lenient! After she gets angry and punishes me, she often will apologize. Why should she, when I had the punishment coming?<\/p>\n
Mixed-Up in Cleveland<\/i><\/p>\n
Abby replied,<\/p>\n
Dear Mixed-Up:<\/p>\n
Your mother (like many others) fears you will love her less because she has punished you. (She\u2019s wrong.) No child has ever resented punishment he knew he had coming. Discipline is \u201cproof\u201d of love, \u2026 Children \u201cknow\u201d this. I wish more parents did.113<\/p>\n
Susanna Wesley, mother of Charles and John Wesley, is perhaps the classic illustration of one who pursued discipline early in a child\u2019s life. She believed the assertive self-will of a child must be broken at a young age by the parent. One of her rules in her \u201cplan of education\u201d was:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen turned a year old (and some before), they were taught to fear the rod and to cry softly, by which means they escaped abundance of correction which they might otherwise have had.\u2026<\/p>\n
In order to form the minds of children, the first thing to be done is to conquer their will.\u201d (Cited by Rebecca Lamar Harmon, Susanna, Mother of the Wesleys<\/i> [Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 1968], pp. 58\u201359.)114<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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