Many educational experts now assert that swatting or spanking children is never good discipline. (“Toronto Star”). Another front-page headline in the same paper one year later reads, “Make spanking illegal.” Spanking makes children more likely to disobey, and unspanked children behave better than spanked ones, according to their studies. This group aims to repeal the Criminal Code which “exempts parents from assault charges even if they use reasonable force in correcting their child.” What do these “experts” know that Solomon or God’s infallible Word doesn’t know? Godly Bishop Ryle (1816-1900), commenting on this topic, said, “I only beg to enter my decided protest against the modern notion that no child ought ever to be whipped.” Apparently the “modern” notion has been around quite a long time! Today’s proverb is to be ruled, by our modern standards, not only “illegal,” but in violation of “the human rights of children.”