[P]ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.

About This Quote

About James Dobson

James Dobson was a 20th-century American evangelical christian psychologist and author. James Clayton Dobson Jr. was an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist and founder of Focus on the Family (FotF), which he led from 1977 until 2010. Read more on Wikipedia →

More quotes by James Dobson