Bachelor alum Madi Prewett and her husband, Grant Troutt, are revealing how they plan to discipline their daughter, Hosanna.
“The Lord’s discipline is never disciplined out of emotion,” Troutt, 29, said on the Monday, July 7, episode of Prewett’s “Stay True” podcast. “The Lord’s discipline is always off the heels or disobedience or sin. When you have a child, you don’t just discipline them for being good and obeying you. Like, if Hosanna obeys us, we’re not like, ‘Come here, girl. Pull ‘em down.’”
Troutt then emphatically admitted that he and Prewett, 29, “will” use corporal punishment to discipline Hosanna when they deem it necessary.
“The Bible so clearly says, ‘Folly is bound up in a child, but discipline drives it far away,’” Troutt said, citing another passage about disciplining kids with a rod. “It says, ‘It will not kill them.’”
Prewett, who gave birth to the couple’s first child in January, added during Monday’s episode that any physical spankings would be done gently.
“It’s going to be in a very loving way of saying, ‘Hi, sweetheart. Do you know why you’re being disciplined? Mommy does not want to discipline you. Mommy does not enjoy having to spank you, but there are consequences to disobedience,’” Prewett said. “There are consequences to our sin.”
She added, “Discipline proves that we are God’s children. It’s not God’s rejection toward us. It’s actually proof that we belong to him.”
Prewett and Troutt also concurred that they “would never” spank anyone else’s child.
“They’re not our children. They don’t belong to us,” she said. “Now, we might have a conversation with their parents after and be, like, ‘What they did is not OK. You should go discipline your children.’ We’re not responsible for them, and we’re not called to discipline them. When it’s our own child, we are responsible [and] we are called to discipline them so that they may be more like Jesus.”
Prewett was also on the receiving end of being physically disciplined when she was a child.
“Discipline is not pleasant. No one enjoys [it],” she quipped. “When my dad spanked me when I was young, I didn’t enjoy it. But now I look back, and I’m, like, ‘Praise God, my dad loved me enough to discipline me. Praise God that my dad loved me enough to train me into righteousness.’”
Prewett added, “I look back to those moments, and I’m so thankful. In the same way, we get to do that with the Lord.”
