The Duties of Parents: Parenting Your Children God's Way [Updated, Annotated]

by J.C. Ryle

Something in all our minds rises in arms against compulsion; we brace our backs and stiffen our necks at the very idea of a forced obedience. We are like young horses in the hand of a broncobuster. When he handles them with kindness and makes much of them, he can eventually guide them with a thread, but if he treats them roughly and violently, it will be many months before he gets the mastery of them.