Corporal punishment

[CAP1]

I was just in line at Target.  Kid whining/acting up in front of me.  Mom told him if he behaved he could pick out a candybar.   

a quick light slap to the cheek would've stopped that. the kid would've been shocked/embarrassed

[SkyRock]

agree with chalenge..  anyone who puts their kids into government schools deserves to be whipped in the town square.

lazs

[Anaxogoras]

I was a timeout kid, never swatted or spanked, and I turned out fine.  The kids I knew who got spanked would immediately turn on something else as soon as the parent was out of view, like the family pet or local wildlife.

[CAP1]

I was a timeout kid, never swatted or spanked, and I turned out fine.  The kids I knew who got spanked would immediately turn on something else as soon as the parent was out of view, like the family pet or local wildlife.

well, i got spanked when i was a kid..........came out fine......at least that's what everyone tells me........

[Cthulhu]

Back in the day, learned real early that if I came home and whined that I got the strap at school or a neighbor had slapped the back of my head, I got another from the parents for whining and a second for the original offense. It was the same for my friends.

Me too Milo. I remember when you caught it twice... Once at school, then again when you got home. And my mom would lay into me extra hard because I'd embarrassed her in front of the school or neighbors. Today, many parents are more inclined to pick a fight with the guy their sorry offspring victimized than actually be parents and deal with their kids. Throw in the good folks at CPS, who will take your kids away on the testimony of a precocious 13-yr old girl, and decent people trying to raise their kids today are pretty much screwed.

On school strapping, we took it as a badge of honor that we could take it and were not wimps.

Same here, although that paddle the shop teacher had with the hole drilled in it was the REAL acid test.

[Kaw1000]

The problem in today's society is that there is not enough discipline in the home...so when they get to school the kids are out of
control. The teachers have no controll because they can't discipline...and there you have it!! Out of controll kids and lots of them!
  I don't have any kids but my brother does...they were for the "no spanking thing" They would tell the kids to sit in a chair for 15 minutes...guess what they would get up in 2 minutes. And my brother would sit them back down. Guess what? they got up again
in 2 minutes...so that didn't work...but when the paddle came out things changed...there was more respect then.

     If I had kids and they acted up in school, have at um...they deserve it..they will be better for it.

That's the problem today, parents want to be the kids best friends instead of bringing them up the right way
by discipline. Lots of kids are spoiled rotten today. it is below them to work in McDonald's or in a car wash.
And the funny part is the parents are with the kids. No wander or government is letting the Mexicans in.
Our younger generation kids won't do the hard labor jobs like we used to. and the bad part about it is
the parents side with the kids.

[Cthulhu]

Couldn't agree more Kaw1000. Seen plenty of kids who won't accept a minimum-wage job, but they will accept a brand new car for simply graduating from High School. (something most house plants could accomplish these days )  And it's the parents fault. Pathetic.

[Kaw1000]

Lol  I had a teacher in high school that would play lets make a deal.
He would draw 3 doors on the chalk board, door one, was detention,
door two was two love taps, door three was one hard swat.
 It set an example to the rest of the class..do the right things and you would not
get swats in front of the class....guess what...he had the best  class in the school!

[john9001]

one time in high school the history teacher grabbed a kid and physically threw the kid out of class.

ahh, the good old days.

[Cthulhu]

one time in high school the history teacher grabbed a kid and physically threw the kid out of class.

ahh, the good old days.

Coolest thing I ever saw in high school.... I had a math teacher who was literally a tank. Big, hugely strong guy. He had a kid who always slept thru his class. Always. So one day half-way into class, he asks the class to be quiet and not laugh. He then picked this kid up, desk and all, and gently put him in the middle of the hallway. The kid slept thru the whole thing and only woke up when the bell rang and he found himself surrounded by rush hour hallway traffic.   One of the funniest things I've ever seen.

[sunfan1121]

The problem in today's society is that there is not enough discipline in the home...so when they get to school the kids are out of
control. The teachers have no controll because they can't discipline...and there you have it!! Out of controll kids and lots of them!
  I don't have any kids but my brother does...they were for the "no spanking thing" They would tell the kids to sit in a chair for 15 minutes...guess what they would get up in 2 minutes. And my brother would sit them back down. Guess what? they got up again
in 2 minutes...so that didn't work...but when the paddle came out things changed...there was more respect then.

     If I had kids and they acted up in school, have at um...they deserve it..they will be better for it.

That's the problem today, parents want to be the kids best friends instead of bringing them up the right way
by discipline. Lots of kids are spoiled rotten today. it is below them to work in McDonald's or in a car wash.
And the funny part is the parents are with the kids. No wander or government is letting the Mexicans in.
Our younger generation kids won't do the hard labor jobs like we used to. and the bad part about it is
the parents side with the kids.

I've been working a minimom wage job sense i was 15 (I'm 17 now), but i am the minority with my friends. My parrents taught me from a early age that if you want something, you have to work for it. I had to buy my own car (96 honda civic) with my own money. I don't think a lot of kids these days know the feeling of all you hard work actually meaning something.

[john9001]

I've been working a minimom wage job sense i was 15 (I'm 17 now), but i am the minority with my friends. My parrents taught me from a early age that if you want something, you have to work for it. I had to buy my own car (96 honda civic) with my own money. I don't think a lot of kids these days know the feeling of all you hard work actually meaning something.

yes,  my first car i bought with my earned money, my dad was not poor, he could have paid for it.  He even made me earn half the money for my first bicycle, i washed cars and mowed the lawns for all the neighbors on our street. In jr high i had a paper route, in high school i worked in a bowling ally at night. After i got out of highschool he got me a job working for him as a apprentice iron worker to get money for collage.

i think he was trying to teach me the value of money.

[Cthulhu]

I've been working a minimom wage job sense i was 15 (I'm 17 now), but i am the minority with my friends. My parrents taught me from a early age that if you want something, you have to work for it. I had to buy my own car (96 honda civic) with my own money. I don't think a lot of kids these days know the feeling of all you hard work actually meaning something.

Your parents have the right idea Sun. It'll pay off big time as you get older. And I'm guessing you're prouder of that Civic than some spoiled prk with a new Bimmer that his Daddy bought him. (Although frankly I'd trade with either of you. My first car was a 1966 Rambler; brown, silver trunk, with only 3 door handles. But it did have these really cool fold-down "date" seats ) And I paid for it myself.

[ariansworld]

When I used to spank mine, I used a wooden spoon. Department stores have that one with the really long handle. I'd stick that thing in my back pocket & carry it around with me everywhere.

Lived in California for a bit... Policeman behind me in line at the Post Office gave me the whole "appearance of abuse" lecture.  I told him that when he was responsible for raising my kids, that he'd get to choose how they were disciplined... until then he could bugger off.

There does come a point when spanking is no longer appropriate... because once they get a little bit older there are other "incentives" to not get into trouble... like removing of their outdoor play privileges... no bike... no after school visitors... no phone... While the whole grounding thing seems really "leave it to beaver," it is pretty effective. 

*edit*  I would have been A-OK with the school administration spanking my kids... when they were younger.  Or calling me to the school to administer the spanking.

*edit again* Leave it to CNN to characterize spanking as "beating your kids" *rolls my eyes*

Those wooden spoons are the worst!!!!!!!!      They really, really do hurt.

[Kaw1000]

Wtg Sunfan and the rest of you young whipper snappers!! Continue on that trail and you will be a success!!
And when you have kids bring them up the same way!!