Kid Guide
Consider the case of an independent-contractor-type outcall piano teacher
who weekly enters the house of some kid's parents, which parents want the kid to have piano lessons....and the kid does not want to have piano
lessons, and shows it by not even sitting at the piano to play the piece assigned when asked by the piano teacher.
Should force be used by the teacher against/for the non-compliant student after the teacher's request is not complied with by
the student?
Domestic Abuse type people would emphatically say: NO! Instead, either let the kid fool around and not even sit at the piano (thus wasting the parental piano-teaching-lessons money), or try to coax him or her into buckling down with gentle verbal enticements of some reward(s), or engage in relentless and persistent soft-spoken oral chastisements and warnings [having absolutely no effect whatsoever on the disobedient child].
On the other hand are those who promote and actually take much harsher and heavy-handed actions, involving physically pushing, shoving, or striking the student on the butt or side of the head or face....having in mind the admonition that if one beats one's son with a rod, he will not die, and one will save him from hell (which admonition was written by the same guy who said it is good for the eyes to see the Sun)....against which the anti-child-abuser advocates would object - imagining the consequential internal bleeding and blindness if actually so done.
So, what if mere verbal criticism and/or compliments are NOT enough? [And let's be REALISTIC, and not in some wannabe dreamworld here!]
What if enticements of rewards for compliance simply do NOT work?
What if attention diversions are NOT cutting it? If force of some limited types and degrees should be applied, how MUCH - and
for what PURPOSE?
The job of parents is not to condemn outside teachers for those outside teachers not using force of various kinds to various extents against children who do not belong to those outside teachers, nor to condemn the police for not disciplining the children of parents.
But for what reasons and causes should parents apply force against/for their children? About something the parents want which is NOT necessary to do, but simply a pipe-dream craving or illusion parents want but the kid does not want....or instead about practical necessary things?
For example, piano lessons are not a necessary requirement for survival, nor is sleeping on only their left side and not their right side when in bed. In sharp contrast, both you and I can think of many things which are necessary or at least economically and socially very expedient. But.....what in fact are they, when it comes right down to it?
Here is where both parents and kids need GUIDANCE. They both
must have guidance [to be fair to both of them]. And that guidance should be the BEST, MOST RELIABLE there is.
As scientists, within the complete scope of our human perception within the totality of the environment we all are aware of, there is that entity known
as The HOLY BIBLE in the best of it's 66-book KJV, RSV, NASV, NKJV, Wesley and other translations. We will not disregard, ignore,
nor impiously ridicule.....with ridiculous and absurd anti-religious bias and prejudice.....that most-respected source.
What does reading Scripture by parents to their children accomplish? How would that influence ideological aspirations and behavior, both of and in
parents AND children?
First of all, parents need historical and doctrinal Biblical knowledge to declare and insist on REALISTIC goals and challenges for their children.
That is accomplished by they themselves reading the Bible. Along those lines, children will hear those Divinely-inspired verses and (to various
and increasing extents as they age) ALSO discover what goals are realistic and required.
Second, both parents and children will sense that there is a Divine umpire higher than both of them Who functions as a Perfect and
Eternally-Consistent, More-Powerful-Than-Themselves, Wiser-Than-Themselves, HOLY Referee who in every way calls the shots and enforces those shots He calls in a thousand different ways....particularly through His natural phenomena which NO one can go against and still live.
In that sense, parents increasingly realize (and children of course realize less but yet somewhat - at their underdeveloped and immature ages) that
the PARENTS have - not an excuse - but instead Divine justification for using the types and degrees of force to restain, control, and righteously punish errant and/or ignorant children.
That gives stronger and wiser parents confidence to not FEAR retaliation from weaker and dumber punished children,
and that gives children realization that parents are acting as mere benign and neutral AGENTS of GOD: obedient themselves to what
GOD has ordered they themselves to do.
Now, that does not mean that bringing children up with enforced Bible reading will either make them ideal community citizens or save their souls from hell. Jesus rightly stated that most people are going to
want to go the WRONG way(s), will eventually burn in hell forever because of that, and meanwhile there are plenty of understandably-applied RODS for the backs of FOOLS - whether that takes the form of traffic tickets and fines, unemployment for aberrance, reform school, military school, the Marines and military boot camp, police and sheriff or other law enforcement with judges and courts and fines and prison, etc.
But at least wicked evildoers will realize what is happening and why, even though they might claim otherwise and both dislike and disagree with it.
When relentlessly-disobedient children get enough power (physically, occupationally, monetarily, and legally at age 18 or 21), they depart and
leave the jurisdiction of parents who previously controlled and restrained them. They are then out in the cold and cruel world where it is 'dog
eat dog' (as mopheaded/sleeveless/sockless summertime perverts and particularly pervertesses sport milkbone underwear) and it's survival of the fittest, without the loving and caring assistance of rejected parents. It is there they confront not only legal and military opposition against disobedience to community expectations, but through painful trial-and-error experimentation encounter and experience the Lord's non-compromising phenomena of nature which have not, do not now, and never will give in to anyone who opposes them. In the contest and conflict of non-accomodating humans against Nature, Nature always
(and thankfully) wins. [For proof, observe the myriad hospitals of the diseased and injured, plus the silent cemeteries of those who did not accomodate (either gradually or quickly) to what the Christ created] and who were innocently persecuted to death by the selfishly-disobedient, faithlessly-warped demented.
