I believe in spankings!
I was reading on the msnbc's news site and saw this:
No Brats Allowed!
I'm sorry, forgive me if you think a good old fashioned spanking is wrong, I don't. I don't mean a 'slug' to the face, a 'punch' in the gut, or any other vicious slaps to a child, but hell yes, spankings aren't going to kill a child. They're not going to leave the child traumatized for life.. they're just going to get the little one's attention so that he or she knows you mean business. "But it hurrrrrts" Some folks say.. "How do you like getting hit?"
I'm too old for spankings, so that point's moot. They never killed me when I was a child, they just taught me to mind my parents.
Social services have stepped in and yammered about emotional abuse so that you can't scold, chastise or verbally correct your child without using a syrupy voice and sugary words, which to a child merely translates, Do it again darling, it's okay, Mama understands. You can't spank one, that's physical abuse, good Lord, where is common sense?
Granted some fools out there don't know how to give a well aimed swat on the butt and instead end up truly harming the child, but most parents could do it without hurting them, if only they would.
Maybe then we'd have less problems with the kids in public like we're having now.. we could enjoy public places again. Maybe kids would think twice before taking guns to school, and maybe there's be far fewer bullies as well.
Kids think there's no repurcussions for their actions, they get away with too much and they test us more and more every day. If we keep going the way it is, letting them have the upper hand, we're going to regret it. No, wait, we're already regretting it.
Egads.
Posted by juel at August 16, 2006 12:52 AM