Why parent's need to be hard but not abusive on their kids?

[jasco]

Children don't know anything until they are either taught or experience it. Somethings are better taught while others are better experience such as learning how to ride a bike vs touching a thorn bush. Kids learn over time from their parents morals and such, through experience kids should/will learn that if used properly morals can take you places. Parents should be willing to punish their kids when they do wrong so later in life, they will refrain from making that mistake and think of the reactions to when making a choice. If a child is left to his/her own devices, eventually that kid will come to think that it can do as he/she pleases most of the time. We see this in school with kids not listen to authority or behaving in class. Personal experience that I myself have endured will 100% agree that if my parents have kept being hard on me, I would have gotten threw school and other things a lot easier and quicker, I certainly would have been better off than what I am now. I feel like kids need discipline in order to grow in life till they are able to self discipline themselves as they grow older and wiser. D you agree? yes or no and why?

[slatyb]

Hard? I don't think of it as "hard". The discipline children need is to stay safe, respect others, and to learn to persist when things are not so easy. I also think a lot of persistence is innate.

[OlderAndWiser]

Yes, life requires discipline and it has a way of punishing us for our mistakes. It is easier to learn these lessons as a child than as an adult.

[Guy13]

Makes sense to me. Bible gives pretty clear instructions and procedures and they continue until this day. 2500-3000 years track record…