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I would think it would be far better to use other ways to teach self-discipline than to show a lack of it yourself by hurting children to get your way.
Posted by rablib]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:15:23 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:27:15 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by gumby]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:56:41 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:58:28 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by gumby]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:42:18 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by gumby]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:34:35 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:01:24 -0600 Arkansas Times
I received my fair share of spankings as a kid, but my parents were very careful to never do it in anger, and only after several warnings. "If you don't stop BLANK then you are going to get a spanking." Kids live in a world where often times they don't see the negative results of their behavior. And logic does not work on your average rebellious 8 year old boy. Sometimes the only way to get that message through is with a solid whack on the rear. I do not resent my parents one bit for those spankings, in fact I'm glad they did it.

Again though, I think the real key here is the manner in which corporal punishment is employed. I have no doubt that there are LOTS of parents out there that use corporal punishment excessively or inappropriately. But I don't think you can take it off the board completely.
Posted by gumby]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:29:31 -0600 Arkansas Times
This goes a long way to explain the mindset of the Akins of this world and Arkansas' three stooges.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:11:17 -0600 Arkansas Times

“A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.”
Sigmund Freud
Posted by Zatharus]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:04:23 -0600 Arkansas Times
Full disclosure....I was one of those little boys that Ritalin was invented for, but sadly it came along after my time. Instead I got many doses of severe butt pain administered by an adult I was or wasn't related to. Most I deserved, a few I didn't and those I can well remember 50 years after the paddling.

I raised 2 fabulous girls and spanked them each exactly once when they were between 2 & 3 and decided smacking their mother was a great idea. Since then I've never had an occasion to even think of striking them. And those 2 times I had to go immediately to bed, spanking them made me as sick as if I had eaten rat poison....I could still cry about it if I thought long enough about those 2 terrible days of my life.

Don't know about raising boys, never had one. Don't know about being a girl, I've never been one. But I have to guess that raising girls without a spanking is far more likely than raising untouched boys. mag still offers to whip me now and then....and of course I deserve it at times.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:55:22 -0600 Arkansas Times
Same here, outlier. Count the ways.
Posted by Durango]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:58:16 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:50:19 -0600 Arkansas Times
If you hit an adult, it's a crime. (See security cop at Furneau.)

Hitting a child is okay, though.

Got it.

It's nuts, but I got it.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:48:42 -0600 Arkansas Times
I almost never struck my children---just a few times I administered a swat to their rears. And EVERY time I did it, it was a failure in parenting on my part.

You turned out okay and so did I. My children are a lot better human beings than I am, though. Unlike my brothers and most men of their generation, my son has never been in a fist fight or struck another child in anger. I think that is because he was raised in an environment (for almost the whole part) where violence was not considered okay. My sister's son was raised the same way, and he never got into fights either. My sister taught for 40 years and she never resorted to corporal punishment in the class room.

And as far as demanding respect, it needs to be earned. It's hard to respect someone two or three times your size while they are whaling away on your behind.
Posted by the outlier]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:25:30 -0600 Arkansas Times
Verla, I agree that corporal punishment as you described it is excessive and counterproductive. But an immediate application of a relatively mild form of it can turn the tide in school.

It certainly worked for me. Mrs. Turner decorated my butt with three pops in 3rd grade for disrupting her class; Ditto Mrs. Benson when I was a smart-ass and sassed her in the 5th. I’ll not go into what happened at home later.

Thanks to teachers AND parents who demanded respect and didn’t mind applying a bit of “corporal” punishment to achieve it, I seem to have turned out OK.
Posted by Durango]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:55:17 -0600 Arkansas Times
Beat, your children well.... so well you let strangers beat them too.


It's no wonder we have five percent of the worlds population and twenty-five percent of the worlds prison population.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:27:07 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:26:13 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by springdale_liberal]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:22:03 -0600 Arkansas Times
Spot-on, FullThrottle.
Posted by Durango]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:11:31 -0600 Arkansas Times
Children need unconditional love. Unconditional love provides a good opportunity for healthy self esteem.

The absense of discipline is harming schools and children. Discussing these issues in a vacuum in connection with our schools is little more than jibberish. We have done little to nothing for the children who need it and the ones who don't are seldom the problem.

This is simply the wrong issue.
Posted by FullThrottle]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:40:49 -0600 Arkansas Times
Of course, so is stoning the wee ones to death, so . . . .
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:37:20 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:26:47 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:05:40 -0600 Arkansas Times