only some people believe in fear as a motivator in the vein of "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6. i think they believed that a child frightened into heaven, as though the devil were snapping at his heels, is better than the destruction of the alternatives.
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Ah, I suppose that might be true in the final analysis... and I hope that insight at least allows you to have some compassion for your folks...
I look back with sorrow at the mistakes I made raising my own children... I have tried very hard to encourage young parents not to abandon firmness, but to always accompany it with profuse expressions of love.
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i think it is the difference between, beating them to make them harden up and teaching them the self defense, of all kinds, to allow them to be resilient. i see what my parents did right but i'm sure to do differently myself.
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