Having discussed the Biblical basis for spanking, our Christian mother moves on to the practical aspects of administering such punishments, beginning with the spanking of very young children.
Something I found to be a bone of contention in the early years of our marriage was which was should be in force in the discipline. Because I had grown up in a homework Corporal punishment, surrounded by love, was very much the order of the day, and punishment was always carried out by my father, I had implicitly a scene that it should always be the father’s job.