For a child's bottom is made occasionally to be spanked.

The vibration of the spanking acts direct upon the spinal nerve-system, there is a direct reciprocity and reaction, the spanker transfers his wrath to the great will-centers in the child, and these will-centers react intensely, are vivified and educated.
On the other hand, given a mother who is too generally hard or indifferent, then it rests with the father to provide the delicate sympathy and the refined discipline.

Then the father must show the tender sensitiveness of the upper mode.

The sad thing to-day is that so few mothers have any deep bowels of love--or even the breast of love.

What they have is the benevolent spiritual will, the will of the upper self.