disciplining children

²⁴He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.

¹¹Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.

¹³Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. ¹⁴You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.

⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

¹⁷Teach your son, and he will refresh you, and he will give delight to your soul.

¹⁵The rod and its correction distribute wisdom. But the child who is left to his own will, brings shame to his mother.

⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

¹⁵Foolishness has been bound to the heart of a child, and a rod of discipline shall cause it to flee.

¹⁸Teach your son; do not despair. But do not set your soul toward putting him to death.

¹Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge. But whoever hates correction is unwise.

²¹Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.

³⁰The bruise of a wound, as well as scourges, shall wipe away evils in the more secret places of the inner self.

¹A wise son is the doctrine of his father. But he who ridicules does not listen when he is reproved.

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

⁵And you have forgotten the consolation which speaks to you like sons, saying: “My son, do not be willing to neglect the discipline of the Lord. Neither should you become weary, while being rebuked by him.” ⁶For whomever the Lord loves, he chastises. And every son whom he accepts, he scourges.

¹⁸If a man produces a disobedient and reckless son, who will not listen to the orders of his father or mother, and, having been corrected, shows contempt for obedience: ¹⁹they shall take him and lead him to the elders of the city and to the gate of judgment. ²⁰And they shall say to them: ‘This our son is reckless and disobedient. He shows contempt when listening to our admonitions. He occupies himself with carousing, and self-indulgence, and feasting.’ ²¹Then the people of the city shall stone him to death. And he shall die, so that you may take away the evil from your midst. And so may all of Israel, upon hearing it, be very afraid.

²³For commandment is a lamp, and law is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life.