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Active Parenting

I was at the mall with a friend and her children while going to get pictures taken of my son. Her five year old daughter was walking backwards, not paying attention to where she was going, and she almost tripped a man. I gently told her she needed to turn around and watch where she was walking and we continued our mall trip. Continue Reading about Active Parenting

The Myth of “Biblical Spanking”

Myth of Biblical Spanking

A proper understanding of the shebet (translated “rod”) and its role in the Ancient Jewish world, along with an understanding that muwcar (translated “chastise” or “correct”) carries the connotation in Hebrew of “come let us reason together”, further combined with the absence of the modern idea of spanking in Torah, it is important that as believers we approach the idea of spanking with skepticism. Continue Reading about Myth of Biblical Spanking