This teaching that discipline, correction, punishment, when ever necessary, oleads to morality and good character is taught further in Proverbs 29:15. There we are told, "The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame." One who is restrained and held under control by his father and his mother will learn to control himself. One who is properly curbed and instructed as a child will learn to curb himself. One who has porperly learned to appreciate and submit to the authority of the home will fint it nomral to submit to the authority of school and the authority of governemnt and the authroity of God. Real character id developed by strict and careful rearing by godly parents who believe what the word of God says, that"The rod and reproof give wisdom." In proverbs 29:17 the same truth is restated. "Correct they son and he shall give thee rest; yea he shall give delight unto they soul." The father who corrects his son will later feel pride and joy in the grown son who will thus have learned to control himself.""Many a life of sin and shame is simply the outgrowth of a life without any discipline, without rebuke and without reproof. The child who was not punished for sin at thome will naturally feel that he can get by with sin. And the same child will grow into a man without sefl-control, without a fear of sin, without a conscience well developed."
"As soon as a child can well understand the orders given by his mother or father, he should be expected to obey. "
