Bible is guide for discipline

To the editor:Regarding the disciplining of a child: Read Proverbs 13:24. The production of wasteful attitudes may be prevented if parents faithfully discipline their children before faults have firmly rooted themselves.

Discipline of children should be patterned after the divine discipline of Hebrews 12. It is not love, but the lack of it, that refuses to check those propensities that are sure to lead to future tragedy.

The Scriptures declare without hesitation that he who loves his children will correct them. For further study, read Proverbs 19:18, 22:6, 22:15, 23:13-14, 29:15-17.

Train up a child. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. Withhold not correction from the child. The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

CHARLIE ROTHMAN, Cape Girardeau