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Assalamu alaikum. At times we are very hard on our children. Because our parents were like that with us.

Without realizing that the generation changes, the harshness that our parents perhaps had with us

may have been appropriate at the time. I for one was beaten,

corporal punishment. But I enjoyed it in the sense that I feel today I would never hold it against my parents.

That was their way of discipline at the time. It worked. That's why we are who we are today, I'd think.

But as time progressed, they were better means to discipline the children and the world has changed.

We engage the child. We have other methods of

convincing the child to do what is right. We have other methods of penalizing or punishing the child where they deserve it.

To obviously to the proportion of the sin or the crime or whatever wrong they've done.

But my brothers and sisters, there are two things. One is if you're a parent, learn to be kind with your children.

If the Prophet Salallahu alaikum has asked you to be kind with ordinary human beings,

doesn't charity begin at home? Shouldn't we be even more kind with those in our own families?

Khairukum Khairukum li ahlihi, the best from among you, those who are best to their families,

their spouses to begin with and then the extended family? That's what it is.

So if you're a parent or you're an older sibling or you're an adult who is looked up to,

remember, don't be too harsh and hard on those who are below you in terms of age or even in terms of discipline.

If you are disciplining them, do so in a beautiful way. Talk to them.

Understand the way the world has changed and is changing. What's right is right and will remain right up to the end of time.

What's wrong is wrong and will remain wrong up to the end of time.

But the approach differs. The manner of speaking, the manner of convincing, educating, changes.

These methods change with the changing of times just like the method of getting from point A to point B

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