Sirach has some advice on raising children:<\/p>\n
Sirach 30:1 (NRSV) “He who loves his son will whip him often, so that he may rejoice at the way he turns out.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Sirach 30:9 (NRSV) “Pamper a child, and he will terrorize you; play with him, and he will grieve you.”<\/strong><\/p>\n And here are a couple of other things that I wouldn’t say either:<\/p>\n Sirach 31:21 (NRSV) “If you are overstuffed with food, get up to vomit, and you will have relief.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Sirach 42:14 (NRSV) “Better is the wickedness of a man than a woman who does good; it is woman who brings shame and disgrace.”<\/strong><\/p>\n So maybe there is a reason that this book didn’t quite make the cut. (Actually more thoughts about that soon…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sirach has some advice on raising children: Sirach 30:1 (NRSV) “He who loves his son will whip him often, so that he may rejoice at the way he turns out.” Sirach 30:9 (NRSV) “Pamper a child, and he will terrorize you; play with him, and he will grieve you.” And here are a couple of\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocrypha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}