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1. Discipline your children only when you lose your temper. Let them get away with anything until you’re fed up; then in a spirit of hostility and anger, let ‘em have it! Blow your top, holler, get wild, clobber them and really make a brawl out of it. The children will get a bang out of you.
2. Don't make yourself approachable, you might have to listen and reason with them. If you get too chummy, they’ll want to talk things over with you. And who’s got time to waste with kids? You’ve got more important things to do.
3. If they’ve done wrong, never let them forget it. Keep rubbing it in; they’ll loathe you for it. A father was telling me in front of his son about the trouble the boy had gotten into five years earlier when he was 13. The boy was ashamed and disgusted. When the father went to answer the phone, the son said in an undertone, “He makes me sick.” I felt like saying “Me, too!”
4. Give your children all the spending money they want; don’t make them earn it. Money in large quantities is an acceptable substitute for love. After awhile they will only want your money and couldn’t care less about you. It’s something like starving them on creampuffs.
5. Compare your children with someone else to make them smarten up. Use that beautiful expression “Why can’t you be like Johnny?” They will despise you and Johnny both!
6. Mother and father should disagree in regard to the rules for their children. Children will then learn to play one parent against the other and develop an unhealthy closeness to the one they can manipulate.
7. Never let the kinds think for themselves. They don’t have the equipment. The reason may be that they are a lot like their parents, or they’ve been influenced by their home environment. Make all the decisions for them so they’ll never be able to handle life.
8. Treat them with suspicion. Never trust the sneaky little characters.
9. If they turn out well, it won’t be your fault. It’ll be a miracle!
“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” (Ephesians 6:4)
“She opens her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.” (Proverbs 31:26)
“The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.” (Proverbs 29:15)
Are you working on being a lousy parent or a Biblical parent?
Just a thought…