YOU NEED TO SPANK YOUR KIDS!!

In what seems to be an ongoing battle between the pros and cons of spanking children, there seems to be good arguments on both sides. However, those that know their bible, know that spanking children, is authorized by God, and is good for them.

Good for them???? Where did you get that idea from preacher??? That's child abuse!!! That's, you picking on them, because they are smaller. That makes you a bully, and when they grow up, they will be bullies. I have heard all of the excuses, that I care to hear, and none of them, is a valid argument. In fact, not spanking them, is the worst form of child abuse. I'll show you how later on.

First, I want to draw your attention to a recent case, in which a pastor, was arrested, charged with child abuse, and dragged in to court, for spanking his son.

It seems that his son, who I believe is 10 or 11, did something, that warranted him having to be spanked. Well, his dad, used a switch, or maybe a belt, and struck the young man several times on the buttocks and upper leg.

Well, when the boy went to school the next day, he had a few welts on his legs, that were visible to the teacher. When the teacher inquired of him, where he got them from, the young man said, his father.

The teacher took him to the principal's office, and the principal, called, child protective services, and they came and got him, and called the police. The police went to his house and questioned the father. When the father admitted to spanking him, he was arrested and booked. I believe he spent part of the day, or maybe a day, in jail, until bond was posted.

Now, notice several things in this story. First, it was a teacher, that started the procedure. Someone, whose job it is, to teach, your kids. Now, they have become instruments of the law, to police what you and your child do.

Next, the principal, who is the teacher's superior, makes the determination that there needs to be another outside party brought in, to assess the situation. Enter, child protective services.

Their job is to protect the child. Now, while that is usually a good thing, if a child is really being abused, it is bad, when they are left to determine, just what is, or is not abuse. Kids, rough housing on the playground, get far more scratches and scars, than the welts that the father put on the young man. By the way, he had on pants when he was spanked.

Child protective services, determines that a crime has been committed, and calls the police. What is wrong with this picture??? At no time, did the teacher, the school, or protective services, contact the father, before calling the police. At no time, did the young man, go to the teacher and complain that his father had beaten him. In fact, when asked about his getting spanked, the young man said, that he and his other siblings, get spanked, if they have done something wrong. He had no idea that all of this would happen.

Now what makes this situation unique, is that we have a man, that is a pastor. He is a Christian, and therefore believes in the bible, as being the Word of God, that gives us instructions on how to live. So, he is practicing his religious beliefs.

Now get this. When it comes to the Church, or Christians speaking out against something the state is involved in, or trying to do something in public places, the (not a clue) ACLU, jumps in and talks about separation of Church and state. However if the state, comes in to a Christian's house and tells them what they can and can't do, then the (not a clue) ACLU, is as silent as a lamb. Seems like a double standard to me.

Any way, on the charge that this was child abuse, that is a laugh. Not spanking a child, is the 'REAL' child abuse. How??

Little Johnnie, is being brought up in a home, where they don't believe in spanking a child. They have been indoctrinated by the social scientists of our day, the 'new gods', I call them. They are the psychiatrists, psychologists, and sociologists. I call them the 'new gods', because they just about control all aspects of our lives. Everything we do, has to be examined by them, as to whether it is right or wrong. And according to them, spanking, is wrong.

So, Johnnie's parents, use their, 'the new god's' approach, when Johnnie misbehaves. They talk him. The send him to his room. They take away his nintendo games, and sometimes, if he is really bad, they make him work in the house, cleaning up.

Little Johnnie has one bad habit, and that is, he likes to take things that are not his. When he is caught with something that belongs to one of his siblings, he usually has to go to bed early.

Well, one day, he sees a kid, playing with something that he would like to have, so he goes over to the kid, who is about his same age, and takes it, from him, and turns to walk away.

The kid, picks up a brick, and hits Johnnie in the head with it. Johnnie falls to the ground hollering and screaming. When the parents hear their child crying, they run out to see what is wrong.

Johnnie is laying there in his own blood, with his head split open. An ambulance is called, and they rush him to the hospital, where after a long operation, and many stitches, Johnnie is allowed to go home.

Stopping right there, what is it that we see?? Johnnie, has just come face to face with reality. That reality is, there is pain, associated with bad behavior.

By not spanking him when they should have, they led Johnnie to believe, that even if something that he did was wrong, the worst he expected to get, was having to go to bed early.

Well, Johnnie's parents, tried to sue the parents of the other child. After hearing all the facts, it was ruled that the other parents, and their son, were innocent. The judge told Johnnie's parents, that they bare the sole responsibility for what happened to their son. Even though the other boy, over reacted, they put Johnnie in that position by not disciplining him properly. He said, as far as he is concerned, they abused their child by not doing it, and it nearly got him killed.

Now, if a judge can see that, then there must be something wrong with what millions of parents are doing.

As of today, hundreds of children are dead, because they played with matches, and all the parents did, was tell them that that wasn't a nice thing to do. They told them that they could get hurt if they continued to do that.

Hundreds of children are scalded to death, or badly scarred, because they didn't know there was pain associated with touching that hot pot on the stove. Their parents said, that they shouldn't do that because they could get burned.

Hundreds of children are dead, because they didn't realize the consequences of their actions, when they ran out in to the street, from between parked cars. Their parents told them, that doing that could cause them to get hit by a car, and hurt.

Now, they have learned the lesson, but it is too late.

In all of these instances, the parents, did nothing but talk. Well children, being the way they are, have a propensity to do things, because they are curious as to what will happen. And, if nothing bad happens to them, they will tend to do it again.

The 'new gods', have a mindset that says, that the child, no matter how young, is merely finding themselves, and they need space to do it. Now, for some college educated individuals to make a statement like that, shows that something is wrong in their thought processes.

Look at what the bible says about it. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction, will drive it far from him. [PROV. 22 :15]

Notice, foolishness is. That means that, silliness, lunacy, craziness and so on, are in a child's heart, and that it needs to be driven out. If it isn't, then it will manifest itself, in behavior that could prove dangerous, even deadly, and friend, talking, is not going to do it.

Many times, we have a tendency, as parents, to let our kids get away with things, that they need to be disciplined for. When we do that, we are setting them up for trouble.

Johnnie's parents were setting him up, by letting him believe that we live in a utopian civilization, where everyone acts nice, and bad things never happen. And if you think that is what we live in, then I would like to ask you what planet you dropped in from.

When people get upset, even though they should control their tempers, they don't. Accidents happen when people get careless. It's all part of what we call, life. There is good, and there is bad.

The problem is, that we tend to want to believe that if we don't spank Johnnie, that Johnnie won't be an angry child and lash out at someone. Well, that is a possibility, yet, it still opens the door for trouble.

The bible says, 'train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. [PROV. 22 : 6] That means that, whatever way you train them up to be, they will stay that way, when they are grown. Raise up a child that is respectful of others, as well as himself, and you will have a young man or woman, that is respectful of others and themselves. Raise up a child that is disobedient, and disrespectful, and you will have a young man or woman, with those same characteristics. And if that isn't bad enough, when they have kids, these same characteristics will be passed on to them.

If we look at most of the criminal element in our society, you can see, basically, what I am talking about.

Most of them, if you can go to their homes, and meet their parents, you will probably see parents, that may have been allowed to do whatever they wanted when they were children, either because the parents, didn't spank them, or there was no parent to spank them. They basically were allowed to, in effect, raise themselves.

When they grew up, they didn't know about discipline, so when they had kids, they basically let them do the same things that they did. And the problem with that is, that the next generation, will usually be worse than the previous one.

If we look at children, going back to, let's say, the 50's - 60's, we will see that they, even though there was a little devilment in them, still respected their elders. They wouldn't dare think about talking back to

anyone. Back then, if they did something bad in school, the teacher would paddle them, then send them to the principal's office, where, they may get paddled again. Then, they would give them a note to take home to their parents. Usually, that note would state what the problem was, and the parent, would get them again.

If, the child, didn't bring the note back to school the next day, signed by the parent, they would call the parent. If it turned out, that the child didn't show the note to the
parent, then the parent would come to the school, and spank the kid, right there in the office. The child learned quickly, who was in control.

Neighbors, were also keeping an eye on the children. And they knew who the parents were of all the kids on the block, and even in the neighborhood. No child, would dare think of doing any mischief in the sight of them, because if they did, by the time they got home, the parent would be there waiting with the belt ready.

I can remember doing things that I thought no one saw, only to be questioned about it, when I got home. To me, it seemed like my mother, was God. She seemed to have eyes everywhere. The fear of getting spanked, helped keep me in line.

When I got out of high school, that was a must, rather than hang out on the streets, I joined the military. My mother had to sign me in, because I was only 17. I chose to do that. I was not made to do it. It was engrained in me to seek higher goals in life, and the military was offering it.

Well, when the 70's rolled around, a lot of things had changed.

Kids were hanging out on the street at all types of hours, and the parents were allowing them to do it. They were smoking, drinking, and having sex. They would talk back to older people, like they were the adult, and the elders were their peers.

This new phenomenon, was brought about by the 'new gods', as a way to control families, or rather break them up by giving kids freedom to do things that they were not capable of handling.

Discipline, spanking, was given a new name, corporal punishment. And, they began a campaign of punishing anyone that used corporal punishment on their kids..

As the kids, began to come aware of what was happening, they began to rebel against their parents, and even turn them in, if they got spanked. If a teacher dared to paddle an unruly child, they could be fired, and even put in jail.

With this new way of doing things, we can see what the result has been on our children, and society.

More and more kids are being killed, by other kids. Crime is up, primarily because the perpetrators, are, kids. They are getting high, they are having sex, they get on TV talk shows and talk to their parents, like they are dogs. You can't tell them anything, because they know it all.

After all of this, what is worse, is that they are having kids, themselves. And that is disaster, big time. Because if they are this bad, what do you think their kids will be like when they grow up???

All of this, because some individual, thought he had a better idea than God has. I think that if anyone should be punished for child abuse, it should be these social engineers, that have put all of us in jeopardy, not just the kids.

If anyone should be brought up on charges of abusing kids, it should be them.

What they are trying to do, is make the world out to be a utopia, where everyone loves each other, and no one gets angry. Well, the only way that is going to happen, is if God, does it, and not man.

In the mean time, we have to raise our children, as if their lives depended on it. As a matter of fact, it does.

[Prov. 23 : 13 - 14] Withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul, from hell.

Now, before some of you have a conniption fit, about this scripture, the rod, is nothing more than a type of switch. The word beat, means to strike.

Herein, is something that needs to be emphasized. When spanking a child, you are not supposed to be doing it while you are angry. You are supposed to let them know what it is you are spanking them for, and you are to strike them, in non critical areas. A good place is the buttocks, the legs, or the forearms. You should also use as few licks as possible. Most times two or three, may be enough.

A lot of children, when faced with a spanking, will start to cry. God has something to say about this also.

[Prov. 19 : 18] Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare, for his crying. Those tears, and that pitiful look, has saved many a rear end, including mine. But God, knows all the tricks.

Notice He said do it, while there is hope. That means, there is a time to do it, and a time when it won't work. If you start on them while they are young, then by the time they are older, then you may not need to do it. However, if you let a child get to be in their teens, and start to try spanking them, then it won't work, and you will probably cause them to run away, or retaliate.

One thing that we need to remember, and that is, that these kids, will one day be in control of this nation. And with the mentality they are showing now, one can only imagine what they will be like, when they assume the roles of leadership.

One only has to look at what they look like now. Disrespectful, disobedient to most, if not all authority. Walking around with their pants hanging half off of their rear ends, caps turned sideways, and listening to all sorts of music, that encourages them to continue in the way that they are going, so they will fit in with others. Parents, be damned. The law, be damned. Jobs, be damned. Excuse the language, but you get the point.

If you don't want your kids to grow up like those I have been mentioning, then I suggest that you get that belt out of your drawer, or switch, off of that bush, and spank your kids, before it is too late.


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OCTOBER 1999


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