He had ridden that blacktop on his bicycle to court Mother. And for years he had made those weekly trips back to visit his own parents. Your Father knows the way. Paul admonishes the fathers here to be careful in their use of authority, to keep it healthy. The improper use of authority not only damages our teaching by example, but it can aggravate an already bad situation.
Family vacations are wonderful times, but they do have their tedious moments.
He slammed on the brakes, pulled the car off to the side of the road, jerked his sons out and spanked them both soundly. And through teaching. When it comes to rearing children, every society is only 20 years away from barbarism. Twenty years is all we have to accomplish the task of civilizing the infants who are born into our midst each year. These savages know nothing of our language, our culture, our religion, our values, our customs of interpersonal relations.