The indulgence of our children has its root in,self-indulgence. We do not like putting ourselves to pain. The difficulties indeed can only be known by experience. And even in this school one parent cannot measure the trials of another. But all our children are children of Adam.
Foolishness is bound up in their hearts.
All choose from the first dawn of reason, the broad road of destruction. We pray for their conversion. But prayer without teaching is mockery, and Scripture teaching implies chastening. Discipline therefore must be. All need the rod, some again and again.