Murder is bound up in the heart of an infant, but by the grace of God, they lack the requisite competencies needed to pull off their plots. Rest assured, if they could burn the world to the ground over their unmet expectations, they would, but they can't, so it keeps on chugging along. God loves us and He wants us to be happy.
Toddlers are tiny tyrants. Let's call them tyrannitos. They would "off with their heads" every hand that feeds them if they had the ability to do it. They rail at any one in between what they want and when they want it. They are all impulse and no implication. They would blow up the kitchen one minute and be mad that dinner was delayed the next.
Their sin is not cute, but they are. As Voddie points out, if they were as ugly as their sin, it would not go well for most babies. But more often than not, they are so cute that their sin gets excused as cute as well. This is not an improvement. Parents who make this accommodation end up with teens who want to burn the world down, but by that point they actually could, and it is no longer cute.
Proverbs 23:13-14
Withhold not correction from the child: For if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Correct sin when the kids are cute. If you wait, the child you raise will be as ugly as the sin always has been. Love your son enough to give him the gift of knowing how to be under authority and he will walk with God, following His footsteps, as a grown man.
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