My parents never hit us! Didn't have to! Mom would give us a LOOK and we would stop doing whatever it was that was making her mad! I didn't do bad things cause I KNEW if mom n dad found out I would be grounded! If I lied my mother would say I'm sorry but now I don't believe a word you say, you are going to have to EARN my trust back. I was AFRAID of disappointing my parents! The kids today rule over the weak parents!
With a belt? When I was a child. Just corporal punishment in general though? Well I got taken to the “tree-line” a few times when I was a boot so we can call it between 12-20 years depending on how you want to define.
There is a definite difference between abuse and correction. Physical punishment applied in a controlled manner is very different from abuse or even what I would actually consider violence.
Spare the rod; spoil the child and all that. It’s not “oh I’m angry so I guess gonna hit you”; that’s an emotional and immature response which speaks more about shitty parenting than spanking. Besides there is a difference between “mistake” and “misbehave”. A mistake should of course be corrected through identifying the confusion and teaching. Misbehavior though (fighting, back talk, stealing, etc) is not an accident but a choice. And choices come with consequences.
And a timeout is nothing more than practice for jail.
I miss The Duke.
My parents never hit us! Didn't have to! Mom would give us a LOOK and we would stop doing whatever it was that was making her mad! I didn't do bad things cause I KNEW if mom n dad found out I would be grounded! If I lied my mother would say I'm sorry but now I don't believe a word you say, you are going to have to EARN my trust back. I was AFRAID of disappointing my parents! The kids today rule over the weak parents!
Agreed we need more violence not less.
Every parent I know beats the ever-loving shit out of their kids, and they're all the most entitled, lying, misbehaving little shits you can imagine.
Maybe just hitting our kids isn't the answer...
With a belt? When I was a child. Just corporal punishment in general though? Well I got taken to the “tree-line” a few times when I was a boot so we can call it between 12-20 years depending on how you want to define.
There is a definite difference between abuse and correction. Physical punishment applied in a controlled manner is very different from abuse or even what I would actually consider violence.
Spare the rod; spoil the child and all that. It’s not “oh I’m angry so I guess gonna hit you”; that’s an emotional and immature response which speaks more about shitty parenting than spanking. Besides there is a difference between “mistake” and “misbehave”. A mistake should of course be corrected through identifying the confusion and teaching. Misbehavior though (fighting, back talk, stealing, etc) is not an accident but a choice. And choices come with consequences.