Rules for Disciplining Children in the Bible

The Book of Sirach (not recognized by Protestants) contains several rules for raising children.

We will mention them to you for the benefit of all. Whoever has a comment, please do so:

Discipline

C-30-1 He who loves his son more than he beats him will be pleased with him in the end.

C-30-2: He who disciplines his son will reap comfort and will boast about him among his acquaintances.

C-30-3: He who educates his son will arouse the jealousy of his enemy and will rejoice in him before his friends.

C-30-4: If his father dies, it is as if he did not die because he left behind someone like him.

C-30-5: He saw him during his life and was happy, but upon his death he was not sad.

C-30-6: He left behind an avenger against his enemies and a rewarder of his friends.

C-30-7: He who pampers his son will bind his wounds, but at every cry his bowels will be disturbed.

C-30-8: The horse that is not tamed will become wild, and the son that is not disciplined will become impudent.

C-30-9: If you pamper your son, he will frighten you, and if you play with him, he will make you sad.

C-30-10: Do not laugh with him, lest you become sad with him, and in the end you will be overcome by gnashing of teeth .

C-30-11: Do not give him freedom in his youth.

C-30-12: Crunch his ribs while he is young, lest he harden and disobey you.

C-30-13: Discipline your son and strive to refine him, lest you suffer from his short life .

The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: He is not one of us who does not have mercy on our young, respect our old, enjoin what is right, and forbid what is wrong. Abu Isa said: This is a good, strange hadith. The hadith of Muhammad ibn Ishaq, on the authority of Amr ibn Shuaib, is a sound hadith.