PARENTAL LOVE PROPERLY EXPRESSED – by CHARLES CURTMAN

Roger Fulk January 20, 2026 Family 0

(5) PARENTAL LOVE PROPERLY EXPRESSED – by CHARLES CURTMAN

PARENTAL LOVE PROPERLY EXPRESSED

“There may be a stage in a child’s education when compulsion is necessary and proper; but, generally speaking, the appeal must be that of love to love.”—J. R. Thompson

Jan 20, 2026

Parents should consistently express visible and verbal declarations of their love for their children. Child discipline is an indispensable part of this. Children should be raised to understand parental discipline as something that is not only equitable, but something that they can expect as a result of wrongdoing as surely as they can expect night to follow day.

John Newton (1775-1807) was a great British preacher, and author of the hymn “Amazing Grace.” Reflecting on his childhood, he wrote: “I know that my father loved me, but he never seemed to want me to know it.” Parental love, consistently expressed in ways both tender and tough, will prevent children from ever having such a thought as this. Such love gets a powerful and permanent grip on the hearts of children that will be felt by them as long as they live.

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Dr. Curtman has been actively engaged in Gospel ministry for nearly fifty years. He has dedicated his life to knowing and sharing of truth of God and providing readers with springboards for their own thought on a variety of subjects.

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