If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
Interpretation
Disciplining children now can prevent future emotional pain.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon suggests that while correcting and guiding children might cause temporary discomfort or headaches for parents, it is essential for their development. If parents avoid disciplining their children, they may face much greater emotional pain or heartaches later when those children grow up without the necessary values and guidance.
In practice
During a parenting seminar discussing the importance of boundaries.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.
My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.
The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
Tell your kids you love them as much as you possibly can, because you're not promised one second to the next.
Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?
My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.
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