No Greater Joy

This months magazine was one of their best ever! Here are a few quotes from my favorite articles and a link to the magazine online. It's a great one!

"The best child training medicine I know is a heart that overflows with a consuming desire to give children pleasure.Our training can’t stop there, but neither can it begin anywhere else. It must be part of the image of God within us―that desire to bring pleasure to children, to make their lives fascinating and full of joy."

"The leading edge of the attack upon parental authority is now the anti-spanking movement. They will use any means to police the home and mandate parental conduct, but they know that to receive public support their home incursion must be seen as a necessary act of compassion. They paint themselves as concerned now for the children they would have aborted a few years earlier."

"My critics don’t bother to read our material. They get their quotes—supposedly my statements—from web sites that got their quotes from other web sites that along the way sliced and diced my writings, changing words like “spank” to “beat” to create a caricature that any clear thinking person would find offensive. They build a straw man and then expect us to defend it. I am not whining. It goes with the territory. But why all the lies and hostility?"
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines physical child abuse as “any non-accidental physical injury to the child, and can include striking, kicking, burning, or biting the child, or any action that results in a physical impairment of the child.” In my opinion, that is an acceptable legal definition of child abuse that does not infringe upon parental rights,

but my personal definition of abuse would be broader

, including mental, verbal, and physical abuse where the spanking is not severe but is not done in the proper spirit of love and good will.

http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/magazine/