Many parents fail to correct and discipline their children as the Lord commands, and as a result they have restless days and nights.

For a long time I was ashamed to boast of my child when I see and hear what my friends were going through with their children, and this old lady said to me one day, “Never be ashamed to boast of your child when you know that you brought her up in the right way, your mother did not spare the rod with you because she loved you, and wanted all that was good for you and you too did the same for your child.” Scripture reminds us in Proverbs chapters 3, 23 and 29 that rod and rebuke give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother. Correct your son and he will give you rest, yes, he will give delight to your soul. Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with a rod, he will not die. You shall beat him with a rod and deliver his soul from hell. Many parents fail to correct and discipline their children as the Lord commands, and as a result they have restless days and nights. I am glad that my mother and grandmother did not spare the rod with me, for I am a better woman because of this, and I did not spare the rod from my child and she is a better woman because of this. No matter how old a child gets, if you train him up in the way he should go he will never depart from it. “My son do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor detest his correction, for whom the Lord loves, he corrects, just as a father in the son whom he delights. Praise the Lord!