Watch how this mom corrects her son with patience and love. She could have easily been loud, cruel and harsh with the young man, but she took a different, loving and effective approach to correcting and redirecting the child. Check out the short but heartwarming video to see the loving way in which the woman taught her son a lesson.

Children are a joy and an absolute blessing from the good Lord above. No suitable and fit parent would ever say or think otherwise. Those little ones bring with them and add much happiness to every household, enhancing everyone’s life in innumerable ways. Everything in life is made significantly by the presence of children.

While everyone can agree that being a parent is a blessing and an unmitigated privilege, children don’t arrive knowing and understanding everything. That’s why an essential part of parenting is teaching, correcting and redirecting children when they run afoul and do something wrong. Of course, there are several ways to accomplish this task, some more loving and effective than others.

A clip posted on social media captures a mother correcting her child’s errant behavior. The little guy was recently in an artistic mood because he has been coloring on the walls, something nearly every child does at one time or another. This is, of course, unacceptable behavior and must be corrected. But the mother in the video does not scream and yell at the young man, loudly informing him of his mistake.

Instead, Mom takes a different approach. She makes it clear that what he did was not right and that he can no longer continue doing his artwork on the wall. She mentions alternative places where he can be creative and even has him clean the walls.

The mother in the video does all of this without ever raising her voice, but she does and says everything in a kind and gentle manner. This approach will be much more effective than if she had taken another route. He will likely not color on the walls in the future because he doesn’t want to disappoint instead of fearing her, her wrath and whatever punishment she may give him.

Proverbs 22:6 “If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old, he will not be turned away from it.”