23 June 2014

When you feel crabby, and are tempted to snap at your children, pause and remember, "If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come! -- Matthew 18: 6, 7 This means, if you act harshly and cause nasty feelings inside your child, YOU are in the wrong. You can discipline without making your child ‘hate’ you. If your child EVER says that, stop and figure out how you should have used discipline rather than punishment. Then seek forgiveness from God and your child.

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