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This book is an excellent guide to Biblical teachings on discipline! You will learn God's plan for discipline of His children and how discipline of our own children should mirror it. This book will also help you understand the difference between discipline (training for correction and maturity administered in love and concern) and punishment (infliction of a penalty for an offense and past misdeeds usually administered in hostility and frustration) while providing plenty of tips on how to discipline using the six methods of correction.

This book will change the way you look at your kids forever. It not only gives you biblical principals but gives you pratical ways to use them everyday. If you want to teach your children responsibility, trust, honor and more you need this book. You will have the tools and skills to raise your children in todays society after reading and studying this book.

Although this is a great book overall - it's geared in some areas for kids aged 4 years and older. The nice thing is that you can learn these principles and apply them to a toddler and look back over them for furure use. It really makes you think about all the forms of discipline and correction and decide which is best for the given situation. It gives loving guidance for the manner in which you correct your child's behavior.

In a class for marriage and family ministry the professor said that this was the best book in the category of childraising. I was a bit skeptical. But after reviewing nearly 50 books on the topic I had to agree. It includes basic theology on the subject,and tons of helpful teaching/guidelines. The format is also very pracitcal with exercises on each sub-category to help the reader evaluate what he thinks and practices. It helps him evaluate what values he holds and why. It then leads the reader to formulate biblically based convictions on various areas of raising children. One of the most informed and helpful sections is on how to discipline and have an overplan to develop/discipline a child. It discusses how intentional, positive discipline differs from punishment and a punishment-oriented style or childrearing.