Child discipline
The Amish stress strict obedience to their children, and this is taught and enforced by parents and preachers. Several passages in the Bible are used to support this view. Their children, as do all children, may pout or resist a parent's request. However, when such attitudes become open resistance, a razor strap, a willow switch, or a buggy whip may be administered to their bottoms. Such things as tantrums, making faces, calling another bad names, and general disobedience are rare because the child knows such actions will result in corporal punishment. Most youthful dissatisfactions are expressed verbally, but profanity is never allowed because the guilty can expect swift punishment.
