Liberal notions about child-rearing have come under fire on both sides of the Atlantic, as experts decide that children do need firm discipline after all, to prepare them for the future.
A new UK study says that children who receive ‘tough love’ from their parents are far more likely, by the age of five, to have developed a strong character which will serve them well through life.
They are twice as likely to show courage in facing difficulties, to be able to control their emotions, to be caring and to be strong at resisting temptation.
Convert: without God life has no purpose or meaning
A Limerick-based author and theologian has recounted how his loss of faith in atheism eventually led him to the Catholic Church. And love for the faith led him to a deeper study of it.
Born in Flanders, Rik Van Nieuwenhove first came across the Catholic faith and ethos at school. “I didn’t warm to it,” he said, “and my anti-religious views merely hardened throughout my teens.”
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