Spanking your kids and parenting

[Lukeje]

So we have Carl that never did anything wrong, Cheeze who can't remember doing anything wrong, Lukeje who just loves his mom...Nothing odd there; versus me and a few others that were little bastards until we got a clip round the ear?

How do you know that you wouldn't have been a better person given the parenting we had?

Let's just say that I have very direct evidence that I wouldn't be, which I'm not going to divulge on a public forum.

I'll also draw in my brothers, one of whom got directed by the 'telling off' theory who is now 'difficult' to deal with and the 'laissez faire' theory brother who is now living purely off the state.

Of the three of us, I'm the nicest. Heh.

Funny though, in my 18 years of education, I can only remember two occasions when a teacher was attacked. Today that would be less than a week.

Hmm... we may just have to agree to disagree till tomorrow... I'm off to bed...

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I was personally never physically disciplined, but that was only because there were more effective punishments available, like taking away my video games. My sister, on the other hand, didn't have anything like that, since my sister wasn't really outgoing, so grounding her to the house was pointless, and she wasn't into anything else, like TV or video games. Talking sternly did little good. What do you do in that situation? Give up?

 

[SirSchmoopy]

I wouldn't be so sarcastic and "witty" if my parents beat me a bit more.

I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

 

[indyfan]

Spanking is needed when raising children and any kind of punishment that does not cross the line of authority



...coming up next on Dr. Phil

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

So, Carl and Cheeze are arguing against something they never experienced?

A woman doesn't need to experience wife-beating to know there's a better way.

Oh c'mon Cheeze, you can do better than ad hominem circumstantiae.
(Equating an argument on lack of objectivity compared to something no-one can objectively agree with...that's pushing Godwin's)

Also, maybe my parents were just better at being parents

Oooh, that's bordering on personal attacks.

--if you had been in my family, maybe they could have got your respect the way mine did.

Or maybe you would experienced my life; altering situations doesn't address the focal point.

But you never experienced being raised by my parents, so, I guess we're all talking about things we haven't experienced.

Oh, and there's the closed loop. Bad example and another AHC. I experience mine, you experienced yours. However, I can talk about mine, you can talk about yours.

Just like there was no punishment in the school I went to, but, you knew they meant business, so everyone stayed in line.

So, how would your school have differed if they HAD punishment? Back at ya.

Where was I talking about gun crime? Those stats were about finishing high school, I thought.

Yeah...sort of tough to finish school when your classmates are packing heat I'd think?

You think there are no guns in New Jersey? HA! It always amazes me how little foreigners really know about America...

Nope, I think America has a proliferation of guns. New Jersey especially from what I hear on the dullness of it. But in a state like Texas, which has capital punishment as well as corporal punishment, don't you think the lines could get rather blurred?

Let's see on the others...America quote was from the same time-period: Hence the relevance.

If you'd check the report...that figure was from Britain, France is in the second part of the report.

And the recent boom in knife crime doesn't really equate to 2005, does it?

B-. Must try harder. See the Headmaster afterwards.

 

[XzarTheMad]

Interesting as this subject is, I like how a lot of people say the phrase "..and I turned out okay". Who are we to actually judge if we turned out okay? Just a thought here, but most psychotics don't know just how deep their crazy goes. Yes, they might suspect something, but they are the extreme. No matter if we were hit or not, can we actually say ourselves that we turned out "okay"? Isn't that something to be judged by outsides who can take an impartial look at us and see where we're wrong?

For instance, a nephew in my extended family is hyperactive and yells all the time. I think he's suffering from ADD or something similar, but I doubt he himself thinks he's "wrong". He probably thinks he's A-OK. Just depends on our definition of "okay". Off-topic, but made me think..

 

[Varchld]

Interesting as this subject is, I like how a lot of people say the phrase "..and I turned out okay". Who are we to actually judge if we turned out okay? Just a thought here, but most psychotics don't know just how deep their crazy goes. Yes, they might suspect something, but they are the extreme. No matter if we were hit or not, can we actually say ourselves that we turned out "okay"? Isn't that something to be judged by outsides who can take an impartial look at us and see where we're wrong?

For instance, a nephew in my extended family is hyperactive and yells all the time. I think he's suffering from ADD or something similar, but I doubt he himself thinks he's "wrong". He probably thinks he's A-OK. Just depends on our definition of "okay". Off-topic, but made me think..

I tend to think that everyone has issues in one way or another, usually they aren't aware of it. I just don't say it to their faces because it gets kinda personal


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[crimson5pheonix]

I've only been spanked once and that was because I stabbed a kid in the back with a pair of scissors in the first grade.

You were a badass first grader.........

Not really, I'm pretty sure that guy is still in the hospital. It really sucked.

 

[Helmet]

I got my ass handed to me multiple times in my childhood. Each time was because I did something wrong, and discipline was the way that I was taught to never do it again.

When I was 6 I was in a wrestling tournament, and I lost a match. As I was walking off the mat, I said "Fuck." I had learned this word from my older brother, and thought it meant that something had gone wrong. Dad heard me.

I got my ass whooped in front of several thousand people.

I didn't cuss again for almost ten years.

I'm all for spanking. Worked for me.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

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You sir, are awesome.

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

Oh the nostalgia of child abuse; is there anything people can't be nostalgic about?

Haha....disgusting.