I am planning on having children in the next 10 years (not that I care about the financial burden). When I thought about this I decided to make up some advice:
“Spare the rod literally but not metaphorically.”
Basically yes, corporal punishment is too cruel, you still need to discipline the child in other ways. How can this be executed? Life lessons are my pitch.
“You’ll have to be a miserable people one day so don’t get used to freedom.” That’s exactly why I don’t want to be on my phone.
What I mean is “reading and drawing and exploring outside and playing games are much more fun than whatever fake stimulation you get from a screen.”