Massachusetts Moonbattery
Being that my dad beat-yes bEAT me as a kid-and the fact that many moons ago I had a run-in with protective services myself I have a major problems with corporal punishment.
My father was so bad that if he raised his hand for ANY reason I would jump.PHYSICAL fear does not make good discipline. Spankings are for the parents-not for the kids.
And using a BELT?!! Yes-I would consider that to be abuse.
No! I don’t think “spanking” shoud be made illeagal-but it should be the road of last resort. It should also be done with the knowledge that it probably isn’t the most effective method.
Btw-I’m certainly not a knee-jerk parent.
As I’ve been telling the BOY since he was an infant: This is not a democracy you live in. It is a dictatorship...and I’m chief dictator.*LOL*Posted by Annoying Little Twerp
06/11/2005 at 07:50 AM
I’m sorry about your experience, Barb. My father gave me a taste of it too from time to time. I’ll never forget my first “flying” lesson. I was three or four and had cursed the neighbor across the street. He kicked me around the living room. I can still remember seeing the carpet passing under me as I flew across the room. That wasn’t corporal punishment, it was abuse. There is a difference.
I’m still a believer in “spare the rod and spoil the child”.
Corporal punishment, like anything, can be abused. I’d make provisions for that and punish the perpetrators of abuse.
A swat on the ass stimulates that nerve that goes between a young boy’s ass and his brain and serves to reinforce the point that he screwed up. If it’s done once or twice when they’re young and impressionable it’ll rarely be necessary as they grow older. They’ll know you’re willing to do it and won’t push.
I remember a few years ago a woman was jailed for taking a belt to her teenage son (15?) because he was out till 2 or 3 in the morning.
When they let her out the news cameras were there and she told them “they may as well put a revolving door on that jail because as long as he lives with me he’s going to do what I tell him.” I admired that lady and her attempt to keep her son from becoming another crime statistic. I hope she succeeded.
Sometimes “reasoning” doesn’t work, especially when a kid thinks he “knows better”. Then it’s time to stimulate that nerve.
Altogether a good award choice, Skipper.
The last time I spanked my kid, he was 11 years old...he did something he wasn’t supposed to do and he ran off and locked himself in my car....
Only one little thing he forgot. I STILL HAD THE KEYS! So I yanked his ass outa there and gave him one good swat on his ass with my hand! Man did that piss him off!
Of course, he was raised by his mother who lives in the People’s Socialist Republic of Ill Annoy, where kids get all the rights and parents don’t!
I would never use a belt either by the way.
