Discipline for Children

         "Discipline your child in the way he or she should go."-in the book of Proverbs

          This verse came to mind when I was talking to one of my co-workers. I am getting the experience that it is really hard to discipline children and when you give them everything they want they will take you for granted. We were told to give into a little 4 year old girl's whining because she is attention seeking. This is a little smart girl so now she whines about everything even the things she can do by herself.
          With this girl, I think I have seen her go downhill from when we, workers, started giving in to her. She will not stop whining about anything and she is throwing the biggest fits I have ever seen. She did not start with the big fits when we first saw her. Granted lot of things could make her this way but one thing is for sure, she is trying to get attention.
           I am learning to discipline a lot better I think because of this experience and other experience. I am actually the mean but reasonable one for once. It is different for me but the children respect me a lot more. It started off hard and was tiring at first because I had to think a lot but now I have some ideas stored up in my head.
           Children will listen to strict but loving parents/people. Yet there is a fine line for sure. Not saying it is easy at all, epically when more then one person is involved. A person can be too mean and too soft. It also matters on what the child's developmental age and physical age is too.
             All this to say, God has/had a plan when He told us that we should discipline the children and how. From this verse, how is in the way he/she should go. Do we what our children to go down the right path or the wrong path? The children might hate us at first but then they will see what we are doing and love us, even though in my case they might not now who I was way back when.