When to Discipline Your Children

Kristin and I are strong believers in disciplining our children. Why? Because discipline is an act of love. Proverbs 13:24 says "Those who spare the rod of discipline hate their children. Those who love their children care enough to discipline them." And because we love our children we discipline them. With that said, we've never written down on paper (until now) what qualifies as behavior that requires discipline. But today I was listening to an audio resource by Sandra Stanley and she said the three "D's" of disciple are 1) disobedience, 2) disrespect and 3) dishonesty. That is, we need to disciple our children when they are disobedient, disrespectful and dishonest. I've found that very helpful to use as a filter through which to determine what actions or behavior require disciple. I hope you do too!