Thank you for this guidance, Brother.
I only wish I had had this clear pathway to Biblical chastisement laid out to me earlier. My children were so much harder to beat into submission when I saw the light and stopped being a limp wristed Catholic.
Had I begun beating them properly when they were ten months old instead of ten years old they would have knuckled under much sooner, I'm sure. As it is, I've not heard from Jack for a good few months since he moved to Germany to witness to the Turkish immigrants. I'm sure he and his good friend Tarquin are fine. They are such close companions they have each other's backs - in fact this became a standing joke with them. "Don't worry, Dad, Tarquin always covers my back and I cover his." And then they laughed and laughed... I never really understood why that was so funny.
Anyway, I'm all for starting young with them so they don't learn to talk back to you and wear out your whacking arm.