Perhaps you learned a few important things from others, besides your father... I'm pretty sure you did. But thanks.

Link to that author's article on Chastening Children

Looking at that article, perhaps it is just me, but while I believe in physical correction, including sometimes a hand slap or spanking, Mr. Lindvall's sequence is rather disturbing to me, in several respects. I'm a little weirded out by step #2, because there is an implicit assumption of parental omniscience, and requiring children to confess without explanation or discussion seems rigid and controlling and potentially harmful, to say the least. Several of the steps carry a message of disapproving of sin, which should be good, but again leaves a rather weird perception in my mind. Little children haven't come to a real understanding of good and evil. Treating them as little "sinners" might, it seems to be, be more harmful than helpful. That comes through even more strongly in steps 7-8. To say that I am uneasy with the psychological manipulation that I perceive in these steps is an understatement.

Of course, it is easier to be rigid and write firm rules about bold parenting and be absolutely certain of how well it works, as Mr. Lindvall is, when your children are not yet grown, as his apparently are not.

: There are a few things that I would like to know about this,
: What does this man consider scriptural chastening?
: Did those parents get their children back?
: And maybe a few other things.

: The passage about teaching used there is in reference to God's law. Which is something that will never be taught in schools. When it comes down to who has the final say in a child's education, it is always the parents. Parents do have a lot of power, including changing the school that their child attends. Everything truly important I learned from my father, and no matter what else I learn, it will remain that way until I die.