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Day 293: Discipline Grounded in Love (2024)

2024/10/19
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Fr. Mike clarifies the crucial difference between discipline and destruction, emphasizing that disciplining children should always be grounded in love and oriented towards their success in the future.
  • Discipline is not about beating a child but about shaping their behavior.
  • The goal of discipline is to help children become good human beings.
  • Parents should not let their children do things that make them dislike them.

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Fr. Mike focuses on the theme of disciplining children, reflected in our readings from Sirach and Proverbs today. He clarifies that there is a crucial difference between discipline and destruction, and emphasizes that disciplining children should always be grounded in love and oriented towards their success in the future. Today's readings 1 Maccabees 12, Sirach 30-31, and Proverbs 23:13-16.

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