A Parents Love

Have you ever noticed how a small child responds when they are disciplined by their Dad? How the eyes flood up with water, the lips tremble and shake you can even see a difference in their breathing. Why is that? With Mom we see a calm side to the child one that loves, laughs and gets into mischief.

Dad comes with one of the greatest responsibilities on earth, correction. He’s not like Mom as you never can know what you might do or say to bring out the disciplinary side of Dad. He carries the rod of correction, and the child knows it. This is why Mom can say I’m going to tell your Dad and that child will behave the remainder of the day in hopes that Mom forgets to tell Dad.

Mom on the other hand loves, she shelters the child from hurt. She wants nothing more than to give her child everything she knows they will need to be successful in life. And to shield them from life’s hurts. This is why Mom can say stop twenty times and Dad only need say it once.

We can’t be afraid to discipline our children if we spare the rod, we spoil the child. In spoiling our child, we leave them at the hands and mercy of others. We leave them for the law to correct. Discipline starts at home, and it starts when the child is small. We can’t wait until the child has gotten too old to chastise to begin disciplining them.

I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked how you get your children to behave so well. I’m always amazed at others’ amazement over my children’s behavior. I often wonder what they’re doing at home with their child that allows them to act out in public.

Has anyone other than me looked back and seen how laws came into being to protect children that were getting beat with drop cords, clothes hangers and burnt with irons and cigarettes (not to mention those that were locked away to starve) that those same laws now give children the right to call the police and say I’m being abused because Mom or Dad didn’t buy me the iPhone that I want or they took my PlayStation as punishment cause I refuse to do my homework. Fear came over people and they stopped disciplining their children.

Not to mention TV shows like the Nanny cause one person doesn’t believe you should do or not do something we all live by it now even when it goes against the word of God. There is no need to fear if we decide to do what is right before the Lord.

The point is we have more and more single parent households with less discipline and that leaves it in the hands of others and the law to teach our children right from wrong when it is our responsibility to do so. I don’t have to cry on the news about a cop shooting my child or overusing force if I teach them that robbing a store is wrong at home. I don’t have to worry that the neighbor shot my child crawling in their window if I teach them at home that its wrong. We must stop assuming our children know and teach them.

I’ve noticed more and more that men are stepping up and trying to correct the things that have gone wrong the question then becomes will the woman stand by his side or in his way? Will society tell them they are wrong? Will society interfere if they see someone disciplining their child?

 In the movie Spiderman Peter Parker lets a carjacker go that he could have stopped but didn’t due to revenge. After his uncle Ben is killed Peter chases the person, he thinks did it only to realize it’s the carjacker that robbed the fight promoter that cheated him. This can teach us great things like minding our own business when someone takes to public disciplining of their child. You may very well be the person they turn to rob or kill later if their parent doesn’t discipline them. We should be glad in our heart that the parent is correcting the child teaching them right from wrong, so we don’t have to deal with them later in life and they in turn be the one to harm or even kill us. Look at how the news shows us more and more children under 10 years of age plotting to kill or murdering someone. Their being caught having sex in closets at school their getting their parents guns is this not due in part to a lack of discipline?

 Let’s get back to family, let’s get back to Gods ways of doing things. We know the end is fast approaching but that doesn’t mean we stop trying to make things better or do what’s right. So, let’s let Dads provide, protect and discipline while Moms instruct, love and nurture the children. In doing so perhaps we to can learn or see something we ourselves can correct as parents.