GoldenRuleFamily

goldenrulefamily

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The post below is one that has seemed most logical to me from my own experience of seeing young children hit by parents and by older children that only seemed to teach them resentment at the least and often acceptance of violence in their own lives.

I think I was only able to see this clearly because violence of any sort was not tolerated in my family, or by most of those I was in contact with while growing up.

Most justify hitting children from their own upbringing and mistranslations of a few Jewish scriptures where they spoke of "spare the rod, and spoil the child". A "rod" in Hebrew culture was the "Staff of authority" a Priest used, not to beat people but to as sign of spiritual authority.

Althrough inthe past 5000 years, and probably much more, there has been one war after another and the violence that goes along with it. It is time we have to learn war no more if we want to prevent our capability to cause world wide destruction to end.

Violence of anyone, especially someone smaller than you, only teaches violence and disrespect, not real respect. We can if we really tried stop the cycle of violence, at least become a part of the solution,rather than a part of the problem,we may not even have been aware of our contribution.

Evenwith my most fortunate upbringing, I too at times have fallen into forms of anger and violence, but as soon as I recognize it I do all Ican to stop and correct it. I believe you can too. Count to ten, breath deep and repeat some meaningful positive word, or just get away by yourself, as soon as you can, teach, "Wage Peace" for "War is not healthy for Children or Other Living Things".

Betty C.