What I really need to do to be a better mom...and old stuff...

I have this one thing about me that may be a negative effect of something, but, I never like to take for granted that the joy I have today will be here tomorrow. It makes me plan ahead and appreciate today. One thing that's always been interesting to me and that I've often thought of, though I have no family directly involved, is the Holocaust. 

I often think of the Jews living their lives, doing their thing, and then suddenly they're herded up and treated like animals...and they lost everything. People went to medical school, law school, started businesses and families and everyone looked forward to their futures of enjoying the fruits of their labors...kicking back someday on a rocking chair and admiring their grandkids. No one expected it. No one ever would have fathomed it, yet, it happened.

Right now in 2013 my life is pretty much "plugged in." Everything seems to revolve around electricity and electronics. I download school stuff for my kids on my computer. I communicate with many friends here. And, rather than my annual diaries that I've had since 2nd grade...now I type here and my words are stored somewhere that I don't know.

I have more than one blog and part of my motivation is my ancestors. I'd love it if my ancestors woulda' had blogs that I could have read what thoughts got them excited...what made them tick? I'd have loved it! So, part of the reason I do this is for my descendants. 

But, should I just expect that this world is ever going to go insane again? Should I just expect that this blog will always be here and be accessible? Should I expect that it will never happen that I'll go to log onto my computer and the internet will be gone? That "blogspot" will be gone?

I like to plan for the worst, I guess.

So, there is a service that you can get your blog printed. Pretty cool, eh? (I don't actually say, eh) And, I checked today to see a sample of what my blog would look like printed. It was neat! I noticed then, however, that when I 1st started this blog I didn't have a "rhythm" yet, and so all the fonts weren't the same, the way I quoted the Bible was randomly formatted, and I didn't always put a photo on each post. 

So, I spent a while today trying to un-randomize the formatting in my older posts. Starting at the oldest post from 2011 and moving forward thru them it was interesting to see what I was thinking about way back then. (haha whoa! 2 whole years ago!) A lot of what I "thought about" before involved the Bible and things and slowly I guess I've funneled my thoughts more toward "child care" in these last days.

Then, of course...being preoccupied by that task as well as doing laundry, making lunch, vacuuming, doing dishes, uploading homeschool end-of-the-year stuff, and so forth...I was snippy and irritable with the kids. 

Around 5 I was driving just Josh (11) to go to gymnastics and I was ruminating on the day...all the things I'd thought about...all the focus in my posts on taking God seriously and being a non-hypocritical Christian and having respect for children was like this huge neon, "FAILURE" sign over my head after my crap attitude at times today.

So, I said to Josh, "Josh, you know...I am just not the mom I wanna be. There is so much stuff I wish I would do and stuff I wish I wouldn't do. I am trying to get better, though."

He said, "I think I know what you need to do."

I almost cringe waiting for some blow that will crush my heart with an observation about something I'm doing wrong...when he says, "You need to take a vacation to the Keys. And, we need to strap you into one of those chairs and go fishing."

:)

He explained to me that they have these chairs with straps on them to keep you from being pulled overboard by the fish you catch.

His idea for me to become everything I wanna be in life was for me to go fishing with him...in his "dream fishing vacation spot"...the Florida Keys...and he thought right away that me being his MOM that I'd need a strap to help me not fall overboard. 

Made me smile. 
Made me feel happy.

Anyway...

In case anyone's interested...here are some of my oldest posts...

Like a gun that's made to kill

Not saying, "Oh my God!"

Are all Bible versions the same?

Wrestling with God

You can't sin with your body

Pleasure comes from God

No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition

Lost Abrahams

"Light" in the mirror

I'll pray about it

Falling flat on your face

How we teach morality

Teaching empathy to your baby

"That one is mine!" Apology accepted.

Learning to skate. Learning morality.

Where's you get that idea?

How do you get into heaven?

Love

Today's post is post #146

I hope my grandkids do get to read this stuff so they know that crazy Granny (me) used to be able to think!!! 

me (44), Josh (11), and Evy (9)

Thanks to "Oldify" via iPhone 5

Would you use McDonald's Bible Version?

I was just thinking about something that really bugs me...

This, as we all know...is food. Pure, healthy food that will nourish our bodies, fight disease, and make us happy and healthy.

This...as we all know...is what is now thought of by the masses as "food." 

We even have special versions specifically for children...

So accustomed to thinking of this as "food" now that we've even gone so far as to think the food in the 1st picture...is "health food." It's somehow different from normal food. And, we now think and speak of those who go out of their way to eat this...are "health food nuts."

We have been led astray by taste, packaging, and convenience to eat things which are not good for us at all. We have become so accustomed to eating food that way that we actually prefer that food full of ingredients we can't even pronounce to the food which will make us healthy. And, when the food we are eating is making us sick, unhappy or fat...we don't even realize it.

It's interesting that when Jesus was being tempted in the wilderness He said this to the devil...

Matthew 4:3-5
And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

It is said of literal food that the closer your food is to its original form, the healthier it is for you. The further from its original form, the more processing its gone thru, the worse it is for you. And, this is equally true of the nourishing words of God found in the original languages of the Bible...

Just like a ripe tomato on a vine in your back yard...the pure "fruit" of the word of God is available to us, even in 2013. Ripe and life giving and pure. Problem for most Americans would be that we don't read/speak ancient Hebrew. 

So! Just like the food that most of us without backyard gardens eat, that "fruit" of the word of God must be harvested by someone else and prepared for us in a form that we can "consume."

The amount of "processing" that the word of God goes through before it gets to us then will determine whether that word will nourish us or slowly but surely make us sick.

Here, you can see a chart that shows some of the different English versions of the Bible and how close to the original fruit they are. And, you can see that the Bible translations that are preferred by the masses are strikingly similar to the food we seem to prefer...highly altered, far from the original form, full of preservatives...

Interestingly, the word of God is presented to us in the bookstore just like literal food in the grocery store. There is a limited variety of pure food...and the rest of the store...90% of the store...is dedicated to highly processed and unhealthy food...brightly packaged and a wide variety in abundance. 

To the left of the chart would represent the produce section of the grocery store. And, you can see...that the most popular food of the word of God...the one most brightly packaged and most abundantly offered in the most variety in your local Christian bookstore...is quite processed and not very life-giving...

And, what we have come to accept as food in the word of God is much worse than junk food because...

Matthew 10:28
Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Even some Christians who will fuss over Monsanto and strive to eat a pure diet, are completely oblivious to the "Monsanto-GMO-fast food" spiritual food that they are dining on...

The food industry distorts and "destroys" food for profit...and has managed to make the whole world sick and fat... 

13% of adults in the US were obese in 1962.

35.7% of adults in the US were obese in 2010.

Obesity is the result of a body which spends too much time on its butt which also intakes a whole bunch of junk food.

And, likewise there is a force in our universe that profits from the distortion and destruction of the food of the word of God. 

For example...The first thing God ever said about humans was: "God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Gen. 1:27)"

Why do we now have, read, or accept "genderless" Bibles when the first thing God says about us is that we're made in His image in genders?

There are many destructive and anti-God doctrines that are wildly popular among the church in 2013...which have resulted in a very stagnant church that misunderstands our most helpless (our children), sits on her butt most of the time, blames God for all the bad in the world, focuses more on equality rather than putting others first, fusses about which person is president of the USA as tho' this is the way to save the world, beats children with spatulas to raise godly children...and has watched as the world slowly but steadily slides farther and farther away from God...

Is it any coincidence that in the last 30 years the church has been attempting to get nourishment from nicely packaged junk food Bible versions and is in the current state that it is?

The problem in this world is not the government. 

The problem in this world is not that prayer has been taken our of schools.

The problem in this world is not the liberals.

The problem with marriage is not gays.

The biggest problem in the world is the voluntary spiritual famine among Christians who love the cover of their Bible more than its content...

The problem with the world is the fact that the church is sick and fat...and she is so used to functioning this way she doesn't even realize that she's sick and fat...or that being sickly and fat is abnormal...so much so that we even share memes about how fat is beautiful...

Amos 8:11
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the Lord." 

Matthew 5:6
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied."

You would not choose your spouse by his cover, would you? 

You would not want to be judged by your own cover, would you?

Choose your lover...your bridegroom...by the quality of His insides and not by His brightly packaged cover...

Choose your Bible version the way you would choose your mate...your food...because your eternal health depends on it...

"What doesn't kill me makes me..."

It was around 3am. Something roused me from sleep. Flashes of light outside my window. I heard no thunder yet and there was no rain yet, but, the flashes kept coming. More and more frequently. A storm approached. And, I couldn't rest.

When I was little, I loved thunderstorms. I would hear one approaching and sometimes go outside until the rains arrived. The smell and feel of the storm was wonderful! Sometimes I'd sit on the porch during the storm. And, if that wasn't possible, I'd always open a window if there was a window that the wind wasn't pushing the rain into. Loved thunderstorms.

Today, not so much. Last night, once I realized there was lightning outside I was unable to relax or rest. I finally got up and unplugged my computer after having laid there fantasizing about all the things that would be destroyed if lightning hit our house. I also processed the "what if" the lightning hit the porch right outside the window where I was sleeping?

What happened?

Lightning "hurt" me once.

Last year it hit our house...and blew a piece of trim apart inside one of the kids' rooms and blew out our security cameras, our internet, three TVs, the apple TV, the apple Time Machine, the doorbell, and DirecTV. A few weeks later it struck our yard again and blew out our internet again.

I looked into it on the internet and realized that we now live in the "lightning strike capitol of the country" with more strikes per square km than any other state. Lovely!

There is a common way of thinking...that always annoys me and that is, "Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger!" or, "You can't appreciate the good without the bad."

I already disagreed with that before this happened, and now, it's the first thing I think of when this fear strikes me. What doesn't kill you makes you weaker. What doesn't kill you hurts you and makes you afraid...and fear...isn't strength. Fear weakens you. I appreciated the beauty of a storm before. Now, I only fear them and wish they'd go away.

Don't be fooled into believing that God somehow has orchestrated some "bad" thing in your life to teach you to appreciate what you have or to make you stronger.

James 1:17

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

Proverbs 10:22

It is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich, And He adds no sorrow to it.

1 John 4:8

...God is love. 

Romans 13:10

Love does no wrong to a neighbor...

1 Corinthians 8:1

...love edifies. 

Love builds up.

Pain and fear tear down.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

And, what this also makes me think of are the type of parents who think that somehow their kids are going to learn their lessons better if their parents hurt them somehow to drive the point home. The only thing spanking and punishing does 

is hurt your children and it instills a mistrust and fear inside their hearts that makes it so that you are not a safe place during a storm. You, too, are something in the world that your child needs to protect themselves from and so they will find something or someone else to think of as their safe place.

Proverbs 14:1

The wise woman builds her house, But the foolish tears it down with her own hands.

No one loves your children more than you do...but your belief in hurting them to teach them and show them your love will send them running into the "arms" of someone or something that doesn't love them with a self-sacrificial love.

You want to parent as God does? Leave the stealing of their comfort and their pleasure, the killing of their trust, and the destruction of their feelings of security and safety to the evil in this world...and you...you and how you use your hands...be their source of abundant safety, pleasure, and security...

Psalm 91:3-5

For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings you may seek refuge;

His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark. You will not be afraid of the terror by night, or of the arrow that flies by day...

Plastic plates vs fine China

So, if you have plastic plates from Target (like I do) and you also have your grandmother's fine China...do you care for those differently?

Do you hand a toddler one of Grandma's china plates and let them play with them? Do you let your older children cook up experiments in the microwave with it? Do you cringe when someone drops one of the plastic plates? If you find one of the plastic plates still outside on the picnic table after a week, do you gasp?

You realize you treat the two completely differently. One you don't guard. You don't display. You don't treasure, show off, or pamper.

Why do you toss the plastic ones into the dishwasher, pile all together without concern, use every day and just basically not worry about? Because...for one thing it's cheap. But, really...it's because it's tough. It's strong, tough, and you're not going to hurt it. And, even if you do manage to damage it, it's replaceable. 

The China, on the other hand, is delicate. It's weak. You don't handle it roughly, but with reverence and care. You wash and dry the plates by hand and stack them carefully. You then put them into a piece of furniture specifically designed for showing them off.

If you hand a stack of plates to someone to take and put away and you say, "Oh, be careful!" have you just insulted the plates? Have you devalued the plates? Have you made the plates less important in your home? Have you made the handler of the plates more valuable? Actually, possibly, depending on who you've said it to, you might have actually insulted the handler, true?

What if you were to treat the China like any other plastic plate from Target? That would actually be an insult to Grandma's China, wouldn't it? And, it would show a lack of something worth respecting in the mis-handler...not in the China.

The truth when discussing plates is brilliantly clear. Yet, in 2013 if you talk to just about any woman...even a Christian one...they insist that they want to be treated like that plastic Target plate. They insist that to be treated like fine China is an insult to them!?

Human females...are the only female moral creatures spoken of in the Bible. Did you know that? God and all of the other moral creatures like the angels and the beings spoken of in Revelation are all referred to with masculine pronouns. In the moral realm...so far as we know...we women stand alone...

Human females are also God's final creation. And, Adam was given a special lesson to prepare him for the woman's arrival. She also, was not spoken into existence (like the earth, sky, and animals) and she was not formed out of the earth (dirt). Eve was the only thing made of a living creature. Part of the man God created in His image and breathed His breath of life into...became the woman.

And, we put China in a China cabinet and display its beauty for all to see?!

God so very clearly made women special. He made us almost as the crown of Creation. The beautiful icing on the cake. And, we are the beings from whom all new life (that Jesus died for) enters the earth.

Genesis 3:20

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

And, women actually get offended by this verse...

1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel

Seriously, ladies. Where do you think this offense comes from? Reality? The God who made you more precious than fine China? Or from somewhere else?

John 10:10

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. 

It seems in many ways like we really have not ever learned the lesson from our foremother...

Genesis 3:13

And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Women need to stop eating from the hand of the deceiver and realize how precious, set apart, and valuable we are...not by acting like men and doing stuff men do...not by being "strong independent women" who are tough like plastic plates from Target...but as women...the beautiful crown of Creation thru whom God brings life to the world...

The Bible says very specific things about women but we have rejected all those things because of men who have abused us. We have rejected ourselves and God because of selfish men.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. We have an enemy who knows that...it's time we know it, too.

Being careful with our girls is wise not oppressive

Something else kinda' random...

I was watching that hoakey Spanish soap opera I watch the other day...(which I must admit that at this point I actually LIKE!) and the main conflict/problem in the show was a very loose and wild scantily dressed teenage girl who'd gotten drunk off her butt at a party (she'd lied to her parents about going to) with a buncha' guys (she was hanging all over) and ended up raped. The guys'd videoed it with their phones and that's how she found out because she actually didn't remember anything she'd gotten that drunk... 

After all the crying, etc, the boys were arrested and justice was served. The message that it was wrong to be taking advantage of passed out girls at parties was clear. It's wrong and you do it you deserve to go to jail no matter what!!!

What I liked to see was that there was a 2nd message...which was when someone sat down with the girl and talked to about her own responsibility in what had happened. The person got the girl to admit that not only had those boys abused her, but, that she had contributed to this happening by her own abuse...of alcohol. 

I had a friend over the other day who lives in a house with SEVEN dogs...and she has horses and cats...etc. So, my one dog, after this third visit to my house, finally came over and put her head on my friend's knees and was like, "OK, sure, I've decided that tho' you have so many smells on you it scrambles my doggy brain, I have decided that you can pet me or something..." And, my friend, when she noticed this move, reached down and stroked my dog's head but didn't look at her. Every time she looked at my dog's eyes she'd growl quietly and shy a way a little. My friend pointed out that somehow dogs take that as a "threat" so she did not look directly at her face and just kept petting her and talking to me.

That...is wisdom. To know how you can be being perceived by something/someone else and adjust your own behavior to create an atmosphere of safety and peace is wise. But, for some reason, I've noticed that a lot of women these days find the idea that a woman has ANY responsibility in the situation of "rape" (or even in child molestation) to be totally offensive. And, I don't get that?

If I'm going to teach my daughter to not look a dog in the eye because dogs can take that as a threat and it can possibly arouse aggressive behavior in the dog...why wouldn't I also likewise teach her how to not do things which could possibly arouse aggressive sexual behaviors in another mammal...the human male?

When it comes to self-preservation and walking wisely, it's irrelevant what the other person (or animal) should or shouldn't do. That is their choice. But, humans are mammals...and there are things that universally arouse certain emotions in us...and there are things that are not so universal. But, for the things which are universal, if there is a behavior that is scientifically proven to arouse human males sexually, if a woman is wise, if she is out somewhere in the presence of men (especially strangers)...unless she wants to arouse those men...she should not engage in that behavior...because she doesn't know whether the men she's with are good men or bad?

I feel like to not teach my girls that certain things push certain buttons in men would be to be failing them, and almost teaching them to be very selfish and disrespectful and foolish. To think that a girl can go out into public dressed however she wants...and act however she wants...without regard to those other moral creatures with mammalian bodies and how they will be affected by her is simply foolish...

I know it's a tough balance to teach our children, in general, how to be safe in this world that's got more and more crazies every year, it seems. I don't want to fill my children full of fear and make them "afraid of all strangers" but at the same time, all strangers must be approached with a certain level of wisdom and caution...the same way you approach a strange dog. Not all dogs bite, but, it's still wise to approach them and behave around them in a way that is scientifically proven to be least threatening and least likely to result in an attack. It only seems reasonable, therefore, to treat the human mammal in the same manner. Not because my daughters are lesser of value or because they're "being oppressed" but because my daughters should be wise...

That's my random thought for the day.

With more spanking would we have less delinquents and criminals?

I think we've all seen this:

It basically says that if you don't spank your kids the only other alternative is that they run hog wild! 
Spanking = good parenting and good kids = safe world. 
Not spanking = bad parenting and bad kids = crime!!

Right?

Either you spank...and raise good productive citizens...OR...if you don't spank...you raise brats who have no self control and could very well end up criminals!!!

Right?

I think we've all heard it, and, if you're someone who sees spanking as a valuable parenting tool...you believe it. And, because spanking does give immediate results, I understand why you believe that. I do. But, we have to remember that we're dealing with moral human beings...and just because we do something to them and they give us an "immediate" response...that doesn't tell us what's necessarily actually going on on the inside of them, does it? The only way to tell how spanking really affects kids is to look at the big picture. You have to look at how many in your society spank...and then look at society at large and see how the whole society is doing.

Well...there are people out there who like gathering data. I'm thankful for those people because I'm a person who likes seeing the data they collect...

Doing a search on countries and the % of their population that is incarcerated I found many websites with the same data. Below is a chart I found on one of those sites that has the data laid out quite nicely, I think, showing how many people per 100,000 of the population that are in jail...So, I copied/pasted it here...

And...I added a little detail to the chart...

I also did searches on countries in the world...in which using hitting/spanking/corporal punishment as a parenting tool...is banned and highlighted those countries in yellow.

According to the above graphic...the countries in the top spots for having the most % of their populations in jail are going to be countries in which spanking is banned! Because with more of "this" (spanking) there'd be less of "this" (delinquents/crime). Therefore, countries where spanking is banned...crime should be rampant.

According to a wide variety of sources I find...somewhere around 90% of US parents spank...

So, according to that graphic...the US should be pretty far down on the scale with crime rates well below the countries in which spanking is banned...because more spanking = less crime and if we have 90% of our population spanking...that's almost our whole society...

Here is what the information shows...

Rank	Country (or dependent territory) Countries not in yellow = spanking is not banned Yellow = country in which spanking is banned	Prisoners per 100,000 population
1	United States of America	716
2	St. Kitts and Nevis	649
3	Seychelles	641
4	Virgin Islands (USA)	539
5	Rwanda	527
6	Georgia	514
7	Cuba	510
8	Russian Federation	502
9	Anguilla (United Kingdom)	480
10	Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)	460c
11	Belarus	438
12	El Salvador	425
13	Bermuda (United Kingdom)	417
14	Azerbaijan	407
14	Belize	407
16	Grenada	402
17	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	389
18	Antigua and Barbuda	387
19	Cayman Islands (United Kingdom)	385
20	Barbados	377
21	Bahamas	371
22	St. Maarten (Netherlands)	369
23	Panama	366
24	Dominica	356
25	Palau	348
26	Greenland (Denmark)	340
27	Thailand	337
28	Ukraine	334
29	Iran	333
30	Curaçao (Netherlands)	331
31	Guam (USA)	328
32	Kazakhstan	316
33	Costa Rica	314
33	Lithuania	314
33	Swaziland	314c
36	St. Lucia	313
37	Maldives	311c
38	South Africa	310
39	Latvia	304
40	Puerto Rico (USA)	303
41	French Guiana/Guyane (France)	297c
42	Chile	285
43	Taiwan	282
44	Mongolia	280
45	Uruguay	279
46	Botswana	267
47	Brazil	260
47	Guyana	260
49	Trinidad and Tobago	259
50	Estonia	252
51	Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)	246
52	Gibraltar (United Kingdom)	238
52	United Arab Emirates	238
54	Singapore	237
55	Israel	236
56	Colombia	235
57	Aruba (Netherlands)	228
58	Samoa (formerly Western Samoa)	227
59	Turkmenistan	224
60	Poland	220
61	Czech Republic	218
61	Montenegro	218
63	Martinique (France)	217
64	Dominican Republic	210
65	Mexico	206
66	Slovakia	203
67	Morocco	199
68	American Samoa (USA)	198
68	Tunisia	198
70	Gabon	196
71	New Zealand	194
72	Namibia	191
72	Suriname	191
74	Peru	190
75	Macau (China)	186
76	Moldova (Republic of)	183
77	Mauritius	182
78	Kyrgyzstan	181
79	Hungary	173
79	Saudi Arabia	173
81	Guernsey (United Kingdom)	172
82	New Caledonia (France)	171
83	Guadeloupe (France)	169
84	Turkey	168
85	Jersey (United Kingdom)	167
86	Jamaica	163
87	Reunion (France)	161
88	Honduras	159
89	Algeria	156
89	Fiji	156
91	Armenia	155
92	Serbia	154
92	United Kingdom:  England &  Wales	154
94	French Polynesia (France)	152
94	Uzbekistan	152c
96	Tonga	151
96	United Kingdom: Scotland	151
98	Spain	150
99	Romania	149
99	Venezuela	149
101	Albania	148
102	Bulgaria	146
103	Argentina	145
104	Northern Mariana Islands (USA)	142
105	Nauru	139
106	Malta	138
107	Kuwait	137
108	Bahrain	136
108	Ethiopia	136
110	Bhutan	135
111	Hong Kong (China)	132
112	Tajikistan	130
113	Australia	129
114	Isle of Man (United Kingdom)	127
114	Portugal	127
114	Vietnam	127
117	Kenya	126
117	Malaysia	126
117	Zambia	126c
120	Luxembourg	124
121	Kiribati	122
121	Nicaragua	122c
123	China	121 or 170[2]
123	Zimbabwe	121c
125	Myanmar (formerly Burma)	120
125	Tuvalu	120
127	Cameroon	119
128	Burundi	118
128	Lebanon	118
130	Croatia	115
130	Iraq	115
132	Canada	114
133	Bolivia	112
133	Cyprus (Republic of)	112
133	Macedonia (former Yugoslav Republic of)	112
136	Greece	111
136	Sao Tome e Principe	111
138	Philippines	110
139	Cook Islands (New Zealand)	109
139	Italy	109
141	Lesotho	107
142	Brunei Darussalam	105
143	Austria	104
143	Cambodia	104
143	Mayotte (France)	104
146	France	102
147	Angola	100
147	Belgium	100
147	Sri Lanka	100
150	Paraguay	97
151	Uganda	96
151	United Kingdom: Northern Ireland	96
153	Ireland	95
154	Jordan	95
154	Madagascar	95
156	Republic of Korea	92
157	South Sudan	89c
158	Guatemala	87
158	Netherlands	87
160	Ecuador	86
161	Micronesia, Federated States of	85
162	Tanzania	84
163	Djibouti	83
163	Germany	83
165	Egypt	80c
166	Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation	77
167	Switzerland	76
168	Benin	75
168	Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska	75
170	Afghanistan	74
170	Denmark (banned spanking in 1997)	74
170	Malawi	74
173	Andorra	73
173	Norway (banned spanking in 1987)	73
173	Vanuatu	73
176	Haiti	72
177	Sweden (banned spanking in 1979)	70
178	Laos	69
178	Mozambique	69
180	Kosovo/Kosova	66c
181	Marshall Islands	64
181	Slovenia	64
183	Oman	61
183	Togo	61
185	Qatar	60c
186	Finland (banned spanking in 1983)	59
187	Indonesia	58
187	Papua New Guinea	58
187	Syria	58
190	Senegal	57
191	Cote d'Ivoire	56
191	Gambia	56c
191	Sudan	56c
194	Japan	55
195	Ghana	54
196	Libya	49
197	Yemen	48
198	Iceland	47
198	Mauritania	47
198	Solomon Islands	47
201	Nepal	45c
202	Niger	43c
203	Bangladesh	42
203	Sierra Leone	42
205	Chad	41
205	Guinea Bissau	41
207	Pakistan	40
208	Liberia	39
208	Republic of Guinea	39c
210	Mali	36
211	Monaco	34
212	Congo (Brazzaville)	33c
212	Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)	33c
214	Nigeria	31
215	India	30
215	Liechtenstein	30
217	Burkina Faso	28
218	Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor)	22
219	Faeroe Islands (Denmark)	21
220	Central African Republic	19
220	Comoros	19c
221	San Marino	3[3]

The first time one of the non-spanking countries even appears on the chart is #30...with a rate of 331 incarcerated people per 100,000 of the population. That is less than half of the # of people the 90% spanking USA has in jail. Less than half.

And, one interesting and noteworthy country in this list...for Christians to take notice of...is Israel...Israel is the country full of the people who are direct descendants of the people who wrote the Bible who would best comprehend the cultural and social things and history in the Bible. In Israel...they don't use "English" Bibles...transliterated (as in not translated...transliterated) NIV's written on an American 8th grade reading level. No. They still use some of the Bible's original languages and still use the Old Testament. 

The country that has the best ability to comprehend the meaning of the Old Testament verses of "the Biblical rod"...has spanking banned...

So, you have a choice. You can continue to choose to believe something...that's not true. Or you can choose to change. You spank your kids for continuing to do the same wrong thing over and over? Even after, "I told you not to do that! You know better!" they do it again and you punish them for that, right? So, what are you going to do now that you know better?

According to the chart the worlds where kids were never spanked...
that world is 50% less crime ridden than the USA...
What are you afraid of?