Discipline your children and you can always be proud of them. They will never give you reason to be ashamed.

If you give your servants everything they want from childhood on, some day they will take over everything you own.

Teach children how they should live, and they will remember it all their life.

Children just naturally do silly, careless things, but a good spanking will teach them how to behave.

Don't hesitate to discipline children. A good spanking won't kill them.

As a matter of fact, it may save their lives.

Our human fathers punished us for a short time, as it seemed right to them; but God does it for our own good, so that we may share his holiness.

When we are punished, it seems to us at the time something to make us sad, not glad. Later, however, those who have been disciplined by such punishment reap the peaceful reward of a righteous life.

These are Solomon's proverbs: Wise children make their fathers proud of them; foolish ones bring their mothers grief.

A sensible person gathers the crops when they are ready; it is a disgrace to sleep through the time of harvest.

There is nothing but sadness and sorrow for parents whose children do foolish things.

Foolish children bring grief to their fathers and bitter regrets to their mothers.

(SEE 1:5)