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## Navigating Your Child's Education: Grades 6-8

## Dean Fulks

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Dean has been the lead pastor at Lifepoint Church since its beginning in 2004. He is also the coordinator for SEND Columbus, an initiative to plant churches throughout central Ohio. Dean is married to Angie and they have three children. He has a Master’s of Divinity from Mid-America Theological Seminary (Memphis, TN), with a minor in Memphis barbecue.

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## [Parenting Tweens: The League of Folly and a Tribe of Discipline](https://discover.worthingtonchristian.com/grades6-8/parenting-tweens-the-league-of-folly-and-a-tribe-of-discipline)

 By [Dean Fulks](https://discover.worthingtonchristian.com/grades6-8/author/dean-fulks) on Aug 27, 2019 7:00 PM

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**Prov. 22:15 – Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.**

Proverbs 22:15 is obviously a controversial verse for a number of reasons. This particular proverb *seems* to point to physical forms of discipline and could be misconstrued or taken to a very harmful extreme. Discipline can take many different forms in a parent-child relationship. How we discipline our children must be determined within the context of our relationship with the Lord and the individual needs of our children.

What’s interesting to me is that these words “bound up” and “rod” in Hebrew have dual meanings. So while at first glance, one could quickly read this verse (and other Proverbs that refer to the “rod” in parenting) and conclude, “If I spank my child, that will correct their behavior.” But through drilling down into the meaning of this text, we read a richer, deeper vision for godly parental discipline.

Topics: [Discipline](https://discover.worthingtonchristian.com/grades6-8/topic/discipline) [Middle School](https://discover.worthingtonchristian.com/grades6-8/topic/middle-school) [Parenting](https://discover.worthingtonchristian.com/grades6-8/topic/parenting) 

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