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If someone asked you to describe your parenting method or philosophy, what would you say? How would you describe your own parent’s goals as parents? Or even just how it felt being there as a kid? These are hard but key questions as we figure out what to do with raising kids. What if God called us to so much more than controlling and tolerating our kids? What if our goal is to delight in our children and to shape their desires, not control their behavior? If parenting feels impossible, it’s because it is. But there’s hope and help and a new way forward – new to us and old to God. Consider also how this intersects with our view of crime, punishment, and the criminal legal system overall. We’ll see parallels between grounding and prison; spanking and tasing; and how our response to crime in the civic sphere can be just as restorative as our response to disobedience and defiance in the household.
