Corporal punishment

[AKIron]

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

lazs

Many can't afford private schools. McCain is for vouchers. Anyone who really cares about the education of our future generations will vote for him if only for this reason alone.

[Baitman]

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.

Don't worry work hard.... You find the harder you work the luckier you will be.

I grew up so poor that if I wasn't a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

[Cthulhu]

I grew up so poor that if I wasn't a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

So how thick are your glasses Baitman?

[Baitman]

So how thick are your glasses Baitman?

Proved that myth wrong. No hairy palms either....

I have 6 kids proved many myths wrong there too....

[bozon]

Corporal punishment...

First there was General Error who was reading my disk, then came Major Axis with his squadron of ellipses, now this?!
Where do you draft these guys?

[dkff49]

I think it should definitely be up to the parent how their child is disiplined. I do feel though that a parent should not take out the possibility of corporal punishment.

I myself have only struck my child in a fashion that was non-painful, mostly attention getter to let her know that I am capable and willing to do more, but rarely had to do more. I also have never used anything other than open hand and never more than one wack. I would never do to her what my stepfather used to do to me. Which was to tell me it was coming at bedtime(usually several hours after the fact) then bare-bottom with belt. That I feel is too far. To me the effective part of the punishment is not the pain but the shock effect that it can happen.

I will add one further thing for those that think time-out does not work. It does when they are younger I would say up until school age. Kids that age hate to sit and do nothing with toys all around them. My daughter took more notice to the timeout than she did the attention getting wack. For me the trick is take away their freedoms, for instance my daughter's bike or like right now she is not allowed to watch a movie on tv that she loves and is not coming on again for a while. I then make her earn back the freedom that waas taken away, by not only doing what I asked her in the first placebut do extra stuff as well. I believe that this will teach her to understand that the freedoms that she has are not guaranteed and must be earnedby doing things that are expected of her.

Must be working because all I get from anybody that she stays with or from her teachers is that she is one of the most well behaved children.

BTW she is 9 years old now and I can trust her with many things that I would not trust alot of adults with.

[texasmom]

I will add one further thing for those that think time-out does not work. It does when they are younger I would say up until school age. Kids that age hate to sit and do nothing with toys all around them. My daughter took more notice to the timeout than she did the attention getting wack. For me the trick is take away their freedoms, for instance my daughter's bike or like right now she is not allowed to watch a movie on tv that she loves and is not coming on again for a while. I then make her earn back the freedom that waas taken away, by not only doing what I asked her in the first placebut do extra stuff as well. I believe that this will teach her to understand that the freedoms that she has are not guaranteed and must be earnedby doing things that are expected of her.

I do about the same.  Except the earning back part. Once it's gone for the designated amount of time... it's gone.  The only earning they can do is the right to not have it taken away the next time.

[dkff49]

yes I set a time restriction also (forgot to mention). I just don't hand it back, they need to earn it back after said restriction.

Example: Just today my daughter was given the chore of walking new pup and decided that her idea was to tie him up with 4ft lead and leave him there, now she had been warned about doing this earlier and did it anyway. Well she lost her TV privledges for the day now in order for her to regain them she needed to pull a little extra weight through the day to earn those privledges back at the end of day.

We think this helps make her less willing to risk loosing them again. It does seem to work though because we rarely have to do it.

[DREDIOCK]

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

What hurts even worse is wooden flooring.

My mother got tired of breaking wooden spoons and they were building a new house nearby. LOL

[Wyld45]

                                                            SPANK NOW!

                                                         

                                                      ....or REGRET it later!

[Sandman]

My son is 20. My daughter is 17. Both are polite, courteous, and respectful of adults.

I've lost track of the number of times other parents have pointed out how well behaved they are.

The last time I spanked my son, I think he was about three or four, and I realized that I was doing it out of frustration more than anything else. I never did it again after that, and I've never laid a hand on my daughter.

Discipline is more than simply punishment. Beating your kids isn't some panacea that will magically make your child into a responsible adult.

Of all things... Consistency is the key. That and never EVER EVER compromise on a decision. Once you let them think they can negotiate with you, you're done.

[SirLoin]

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

lazs

lol..Lazs agrees with Voss.

[bmwgs]

lol..Lazs agrees with Voss.

Let me see if I understand. 

Since the thread is about corporal punishment in school, and you and a couple other agree that anyone that puts their children in public school should be whipped in the town square.

Obviously you must agree with corporal punishment since you are condoning public floggings.  By the way who will administer this whipping in the town square?

Forgive me, I was educated in the public school system, and since my mother is a retired public school teacher, I guess I just don't get it since I was raised and educated by morons.

It just amazes me sometimes how narrow minded some folks are.

Fred

[DREDIOCK]

Let me see if I understand. 

Since the thread is about corporal punishment in school, and you and a couple other agree that anyone that puts their children in public school should be whipped in the town square.

Obviously you must agree with corporal punishment since you are condoning public floggings.  By the way who will administer this whipping in the town square?

Forgive me, I was educated in the public school system, and since my mother is a retired public school teacher, I guess I just don't get it since I was raised and educated by morons.

It just amazes me sometimes how narrow minded some folks are.

Fred

Personally I think Laz is long overdue for a spanking.
Problem there is.
He'd probably like it too much. 

[Elfie]

Of all things... Consistency is the key. That and never EVER EVER compromise on a decision. Once you let them think they can negotiate with you, you're done.

Consistency and a schedule. When kids are on a schedule you don't get arguments at bedtime and such, they just know it's time. And if I could convince my wife that you don't negotiate, ever....we'd be set.