MY GAME-CHANGING REVELATION FOR PARENTING AND EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT ACROSS THE U.S.A. IN JUNE, 2023
“What does this mean for parenting? It means don’t strike your kid.” – Carol Lennox, A Griot of 2023
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I Do Not Believe ‘Spare the Rod and Spoil the Kid’ Means What You Believe it Indicates
Let’s reframe that, will we
By Carol Lennox
PASSAGE:
“Save the pole and ruin the youngster” is a proverb amassed from verses discussing the pole and parenting. * It has been priced quote by conservative Christians, and also normal Christians, who count on spanking or defeating their children. The holy bible claims to do it, right?
Not right.
In the Old Testimony, where the adage appears, guards used rods and teams. Guards make use of those exact same tools today. Neither was or is used for striking or defeating the pets in the guard’s herd. *
The personnel is used by shepherds to carefully guide and prod sheep to enter the best direction.
*- “… thy pole AND THY PERSONNEL, THEY CONVENIENCE ME.” – FROM THE 23 RD PSALM
The pole is used largely as a defensive tool versus killers threatening the lamb. When used with the sheep, it is thrown to the beyond several wandering lamb to relocate them back into the herd. It is not thrown at them, or made use of to hit them. It is tossed to produce or advise concerning a border.
“When proficient accuracy is achieved, throw it near sheep splintering …