Popular Nigerian Pastor, Reno Omokri has said that beating children doesn’t instill morals or values in them.
His remark is coming on the heels of the trending Chrisland School children who demonstrated sexual mastery in their sex video. The video has continued to elicit reactions, with many people bemoaning parents’failure to instill the right morals on their children.
In a post on Facebook, Omokri said beating always lead to fear, stating that depriving children of their wants when they commit an anomaly is the best way to punish them.
He wrote:
Beating children has never led to discipline. But it always leads to fear. And Scripture says ‘perfect love casts out fear’-1 John 4:18. Consult child psychologists about this. They will tell you beating either hardens children or makes them timid. Many children who bed wet, were beaten. And bed wetting and animal cruelty are linked to a higher likelihood of adult criminality. It is called the Macdonald triad.
If you want your children to turn out well, punish them when they misbehave by temporarily depriving them of things you know they want, and reward them when they behave. If you regularly reward children for good behaviour, they will hardly display bad behaviour, because they become addicted to the rewards they get when they behave well. It is like you. You do not go to work out of fear. You go because you anticipate a reward-salary.
I have read Scripture in the original language and ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’-Proverbs 13:24 is a proverb. It is not meant to be taken literally! You did not turn out well because your parents beat you. How many beatings did Elon Musk parents give him?
