If you check the rate of today’s suicide, the majority of them are young people who have gotten tired of life. A major thing that makes a child or teenager depressed is when their parents deprive them of necessary trainings in life and it ends up making the child frustrated and depressed as much as he grows old. This is written in the book of Proverbs 13:24 that,
He that spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him quickly.
When a child has done something wrong especially the ones we consider as great wrongs, we should never try to look away or let them slide. Right there, it is important to call such child to attention of what he dis so he will know that he has done something wrong. As Brother Eli said, we must not spare the rod to correct the child.
And even if the child wants to repeat the same thing, he will remember the pains he went through when he was being spanked and he won’t do it again. Children are scared of cane and if they know you will use a rod on them, they will never try to repeat such mistake.
What’s the best way to teach a child? It’s by teaching them to be filled with the holy spirit. Something that causes depression is mostly because of the vices of life like money, wealth and other great things to achieve in life but if some people do not acquire them, they become depressed and think that is the end for them. If we decide to check their backgrounds, you will see that they are not filled with the holy spirit.
A holy spirited person will know that all of these are just vices of the world and does not even matter in heaven.
That’s what the holy book teaches us and if we abide by it, there will be no way to allow depression because depression comes from the devil.
