Originally posted by Godsize
Yes! Yes! More beatings for children! I'm all for it. They need 'em oh so desperately. Children are like dogs, you can't speak sense to them. But they understand pain! Let it be your building block of child-rearing.
I'm not endorsing child abuse, but discipline. My sons don't listen unless they know they're getting near an ass-cracking. That's the way I was also, when I was young. Some kids are more docile, timid; others are wilder, more wilfull. It depends on the child. I've told the teachers at school that I spank my kids, I've told the police, I don't give a shit. My kids will never rule my household; and if they want to press it and get removed from the home, so be it - my statement will still stand: They will not rule me.
My 12 year old's teacher kept calling about unruly behavior at school. She tried all the "progressive" methods - nothing worked. I tried the old-fashioned method: leather
strap across the buttocks. She called to praise his behavior & asked what I did. I told her, she objected. I informed her that I would respond likewise any time she called. She told me I could "get into trouble doing that," etc. I reminded her that her methods failed for 3 months straight.
She hasn't called anymore. I thought my son was behaving, but a neighbor child told me he's bad in her class. She just won't call me! HAHAHAHAHA!!! Let the witch put up with him then, LMAO.
My point was that corporeal punisHydromaxent has been around for thousands of years. Even the Bible said that if you spare the rod you spoil the child. Writers throughout the centuries have spoken about getting whipped - sometimes by school masters, etc. But I don't think civilization suffered as a result.
But look at the spoiled rotten, dysfunctional monsters today. Kids murdering their siblings, parents, teachers, small neighborhood children, carrying guns to school, drugs, having babies at 13, committing suicide. How many of those little devils do you think were ever disciplined? They're usually so grossly indulged - or ignored - and they quickly come to see themselves as the center of the universe, they respect NO authority, NO rules. It's one of the main reasons I no longer coach baseball. I've actually had young kids tell me "Fuck that!" when I told them I wanted 3 laps out of them (around the field). I would've never dreamed of speaking to an adult that way when I was young.
By the way, I'm not speaking of simply anecdotal evidence. I've heard juvenile officers & court magistrates comment on young the felons are today, and what vicious crimes children are committing today - hardly the window-breaking & hubcap theft that he saw back in the 1950's & '60s.
I realize that there are other issues at play than just spanking - but that's a big part of it. You can talk to some kids til you run out of breath - so what. They just ignore you - but they can't ignore a
strap setting their ass on fire. It sort of jerks them back to reality, "stressing" the error of their ways - in terms they can understand.
But I have 4 kids, yet I hear so much about how I should raise them - mostly by people who have no kids. [* note: another great irony: The most famous baby book was written by Dr. Spock - a man who never had children.]
