Happy Friday everyone, we're back once more to close out the week with parenting expert

Ted Tripp.

He's been with us all week.

And Dr. Tripp, yesterday you explained the importance of physical display and training

young children and your early reluctance to embrace the practice as a young parent.

Scripture is not silent here, of course, but many Christian parents simply say, you know

what, I'm not going to do it for whatever reason, we're not going to spank our kids.

And you said last time you felt like this has been a losing battle for you over the

last 40 years in America as fewer and fewer Christian families are willing to embrace

this.

So, from your perspective, among faithful church-going parents who love Jesus, love their

Bibles, love their kids, what are the most common hurdles that prevent parents from

using physical discipline in child training?

You know, I think there are, I guess I have two answers to that question.

One answer is I think that a lot of people are very influenced by the thought forms of

the culture.

I mean, you know, the world of ideas is like the world of fashion, things go in out of style.

The idea of physical discipline is not in style in our culture.

So it's hard for people because in our culture, a parent who does physical discipline is regarded

as kind of a simple-minded person who's not too creative and can't think of better ways

to deal with children and occasionally gets upset and just hits their kids out of frustration.

That's the image of physical discipline.

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