Saturday, January 5 [Bring up your children] in the discipline and admonition of Jehovah.​—Eph. 6:4.

[GrumpysWife]

Saturday, January 5

[Bring up your children] in the discipline and admonition of Jehovah.—Eph. 6:4.

 

Raising children is a major undertaking, especially in today’s world. (2 Tim. 3:1-5) Of course, children are not born knowing right from wrong. They are born with the faculty of conscience, but it needs to be educated, or disciplined. (Rom. 2:14, 15) One Bible reference work suggests that the Greek word translated “discipline” might be rendered “child development.” Children who are lovingly disciplined usually feel secure. They learn that freedom has boundaries and that decisions and conduct have consequences—good or bad. How important, then, that Christian parents look to Jehovah for guidance. Do not forget that ideas and methods vary from culture to culture and from generation to generation. When parents listen to God, successful child-rearing does not become a matter of guesswork; nor does it depend on human experience or human thinking. w18.03 30 ¶8-9

[Andross]

Nowadays you have all these so-called child professionals that keep changing their mind on whether or not a child should be disciplined. But God's word on the matter never changes.