Remember that I am always available to guide you in rearing this child of ours if you will but seek my help. I hope you will do so often. Your Heavenly Father. One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic.
Every child is different and unique.
What works with one may not work with another. I do not know who is wise enough to say what discipline is too harsh or what is too lenient except the parents of the children themselves, who love them most. It is a matter of prayerful discernment for the parents. Certainly the overarching and undergirding principle is that the discipline of children must be motivated more by love than by punishment. Direction and discipline are, however, certainly an indispensable part of child rearing.