{"id":904,"date":"2011-01-08T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nogreaterjoychildren.wordpress.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2011-01-08T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:01:09","slug":"spanking-is-not-gods-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.childhoodrevered.com\/sentient\/parenting\/2011\/01\/spanking-is-not-gods-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanking is Not God&#8217;s Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This means not allowing your child to go down the wrong road that could lead to a premature death.\u00a0 This has absolutely\u00a0<strong>nothing<\/strong> to do with actual crying as Dobson and many other Christian advocates of spanking believe!\u00a0 Children need limits.\u00a0 We wouldn\u2019t let a toddler run out in the street to be run over by a car.\u00a0 But instead of spanking the toddler, we should firmly tell the toddler that the street is dangerous, and then show the toddler the safe way to cross the street holding onto Mommy or Daddy hands.\u00a0 Does hitting a toddler really teach him or her why the street is dangerous and how to be safe?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 It teaches them that danger makes Mommy and Daddy hurt me.\u00a0\u00a0 That Jesus wants me to be hurt when I\u2019m in danger.\u00a0 Remember, young children\u00a0<strong>cannot <\/strong>make abstract connections like adults can.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please take a moment to read the rest of the article found <a title=\"Spanking Isn't God's Will\" href=\"http:\/\/whynottrainachild.com\/2011\/01\/08\/spanking-not-gods-will-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, as well as the three that precede it in the <a title=\"Spanking Is Not God's Will\" href=\"http:\/\/whynottrainachild.com\/2011\/01\/04\/spanking-not-gods-will-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This means not allowing your child to go down the wrong road that could lead to a premature death.\u00a0 This has absolutely\u00a0nothing to do with actual crying as Dobson and many other Christian advocates of spanking believe!\u00a0 Children need limits.\u00a0 We wouldn\u2019t let a toddler run out in the street to be run over by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,73,89],"tags":[53,573,55,56,154,174,5,181,188,191,57,222,58,59,232,69,71,578,365,74,75,77,78,435,85,467,582],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-abuse","category-preschoolers","category-value-of-children","tag-biblical-perspectives","tag-child-abuse","tag-childhood-self-esteem","tag-childrens-needs","tag-christian-discipline-of-children","tag-dare-to-discipline","tag-discipline","tag-discipline-of-children","tag-dobson","tag-early-childhood-punishment","tag-fathers","tag-focus-on-the-family","tag-foundation","tag-gentle-and-effective-parenting-resources-support","tag-godly-child-rearing","tag-natural-parenting-attentive-intuitive-nonviolent","tag-parents","tag-preschoolers","tag-proverbs-spanking","tag-psychology-of-punishment","tag-punishment-2","tag-religion","tag-respect-of-children","tag-spare-the-rod","tag-the-value-of-non-violence","tag-toddler-training","tag-value-of-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.childhoodrevered.com\/sentient\/parenting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.childhoodrevered.com\/sentient\/parenting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.childhoodrevered.com\/sentient\/parenting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.childhoodrevered.com\/sentient\/parenting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.childhoodrevered.com\/sentient\/parenting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.childhoodrevered.com\/sentient\/parenting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.childhoodrevered.com\/sentient\/parenting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.childhoodrevered.com\/sentient\/parenting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.childhoodrevered.com\/sentient\/parenting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}