November 30, 1930	To whip a child is usually cowardly and unnecessary. It proves lack of self-control and bad management.    Children are whipped when parents are angry. The father who beats a weak child says, “I do this for your good,” would tell the truth, if, instead, he said, “I do this because I am in a rage, and only beating you can satisfy me.”    Beating children breaks their spirit, diminishes sucess in life, fills childhood with bitterness and later years with unpleasent memories and half-conscious hatred of those by whom they were beaten.    The child is part of YOU; it is WHAT YOU HAVE MADE IT. When you make a mistake, you don’t beat YOURSELF. Why beat the child that is PART of your body, weak, young, ignorant, but not vicious, unless your beatings MAKE IT SO.
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