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Religiously convicted parents’ disciplining techniques make their kids dumber than more “enlightened,” secular parenting techniques, according to “new” analysis; that is, parenting techniques are better for your childs’ intelligence coming from a worldview and presupposition that denies the inherent wickedness of a persons’ heart, or rather, just denies the very existence of sin in general.

Okay this research didn’t say that out-right, but using deductive reasoning, one can easily fill in the blanks about where they are coming from in their broader worldview assumptions that always seems to “inform” the scientific method they employ.

Please give me another heaping dose of misinformation, NBC.

So should I go with this researchers’ “finely tuned,” humanistic, enlightened analysis of parenting? (Emphases and bracketed insertions mine)

• “‘All parents want smart children,’ said study researcher Murray Straus of the University of New Hampshire. ‘This research shows that avoiding spanking and correcting misbehavior in other ways can help that happen.'”
• “‘You can’t say it proves it, but I think it rules out so many other alternatives [great postmodern acrobatics, pure certain uncertainty?]; I am convinced that spanking does cause a slowdown in a child’s development of mental abilities,’ Straus told LiveScience.”

Or should I go with the Word of God, despite the unpopularity or difficulty of doing so?

• “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.” – Proverbs 13:24
• “Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.” – Proverbs 19:18
• “Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.” – Proverbs 22:15
• “The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.” – Proverbs 29:15
• “Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.” – Proverbs 29:17

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