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Spare Rod Spoil Child Glad I Brought Days

Idiom Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child
Example I'm glad I wasn't brought up in the old days when 'spare the rod and spoil the child' was acceptable.
Meaning to physically punish children when they misbehave so they'll learn to behave properly in the future
Origin This call for strict discipline appears in various wordings at least six different times in the Bible. It made its way into English in about the year 1000. Corporal punishment (hitting or whipping) with a stick, cane, or paddle used to be a popular way to rear a child. It was legal for schoolmasters to do it not too long ago. The fear among parents was that if they "spared the rod" and didn't swat their offspring when he or she was bad, they would "spoil the child."

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