“One commonplace observation about parenting is how many professions are gathered up into that role. Cooking, cleaning, teaching, and so on, are all part of it. My point here is that parenting also includes detective work, courtroom procedures, and sentencing guidelines. Not only is this important for the sake of applying justice to the children, it is of central importance in teaching them what justice is like. Many adults have no idea what constitutes a just or unjust charge; what biblical principles should be remembered when someone is charged, and so forth. One of the reasons adults have such problems with this kind of thing is that they did not learn these principles as kids. They don’t know how to process conflict as an adult, and so their children also grow up without understanding justice either.
“So the basics of biblical jurisprudence should all be practiced in the home. Two or three witnesses give us the requirement of independent confirmation (2 Corinthians 13:1). If a child tattles to get a brother or sister in trouble, and the report turns out to be false, you shall do to him as he thought to do to his sibling (Deuteronomy 19:19). Parents must take trouble to sort out conflicting stories (Deuteronomy 19:18), however great the temptation to spank them all and let God sort it out (Proverbs 18:13). A full opportunity must always be given for the defense even if the defense promises to be pretty thin (Proverbs 18:17). And discipline, when meted out, should be sharp, painful and over (Hebrews 12:11).” (My Life for Yours, p. 117-118)
You Think Too Much! 