How do you discipline? Do use Bible Council?

For our children we talk to them first and if they do not get the sense of it or don't comply---then we used the "switch."

Both work equally well!

Do you refer to disciplining children, or also say, employees who are often late for work, or drivers who don't stop at stop signs, or pedestrians who don't wait for the safe to walk signal? We never disciplined our children. If they start to run into the road, you hug them and tell them how very sad you would be if they were hurt. If you're in supermarket and they go on and on about buying those cookies, well you explain that you don't have enough money, but we could put the fun breakfast cereal back on the shelf, and get the cookies.

Teach the children to understand the Golden Rule, treat others as you would be treated.

The rod of discipline is more than a literal rod, switch, it also involves instruction and common sense, you wouldn't put your fifteen year old son over your knee and spank him nor would you set down and reason with a four year old! To a four year old your no means no and your yes means yes, to your fifteen year old you reason why your no means no and your yes means yes!

The trouble is kids today haven't been raised properly, reasoning with a four year old on why he shouldn't play in the street could cost him his life, if your no means no and you tell your four year old not to play in the street you may have saved his life!

Trying to force your fifteen year old not to play in the street is stupid especially if he has been raise in a home where his parents no means no has been applied, otherwise there's a good chance your fifteen year old never made it past four!

To correct an inaccurate interpretation, the "rod" of discipline is not necessarily a literal stick. But it may be.

Here is a passage to think on. "5 And you have entirely forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not belittle the discipline from Jehovah, nor give up when you are corrected by him; 6 for those whom Jehovah loves he disciplines, in fact, he scourges everyone whom he receives as a son.”

7 You need to endure as part of your discipline. God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8 But if you have not all shared in receiving this discipline, you are really illegitimate children, and not sons. 9 Furthermore, our human fathers used to discipline us, and we gave them respect. Should we not more readily submit ourselves to the Father of our spiritual life and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time according to what seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit so that we may partake of his holiness. 11 True, no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but it is painful; yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it." Hebrews 12:5-11 Read in whichever translation you choose.

The point is simple. We all need correction. And since we are all different in our basic makeup, that correction should be tailored individually.

Properly administered by loving parents, discipline can yield good results. Can? Some people resist all discipline. Even self discipline. Bluntly some people cannot be helped.

This foundation being led, How should we as parents discipline our children? Simply with love and understanding, trying to reach the heart.

Did you note verse 11 in Hebrews above? To those who are trained by it, it yields peaceable fruit.

Thus Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14 become attainable. those who accept Godly discipline will be blessed by Jehovah God. More at jw.org

Fck your cult, fck you, and fck asking a question just to give a fellow cultist a Best Answer.

Thanks, I've been itching to beat my son with a rod for quite some time, glad to know god approves.