Posted on 09/17/2014 6:37:46 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
I’m a strong believer that spanking, when done NOT out of anger, is an effective and often necessary disciplinary tool. But I will NEVER support the purported “right” of any parent to abuse their children. Ever.
I can’t stand Peterson not because of his “switching”, but because he is a douchebag who sired at least 7 kids to 7 different baby mommas in 5 states. One of his young “sons” was murdered last year, and Peterson didn’t even know it was his until after the crime! He is despicable.
This is not the work of a man who loves his children, this is the work of a guy who resents having to spend time with them. Or worse he sees them as trophies.
No wonder we have so many kids running around half crazy. I am not a don't spank your kid advocate. But if you can't get a four year old boy, you barely know to stop whatever he's doing with a single whack on the butt! You need to take some classes. If the child was a defiant 14 year old boy, go with God!
I know after I heard that I lost all respect for him. We watch the Vikings, but I don’t cheer for that guy. I’m glad he’s out frankly.
***He told his four year old to “pick me a switch” and proceeded to give him a whippin’ with it on the legs. ***
But, but the news media said he hit his boy with a TREE BRANCH!
Who of us has not been whipped with a switch or a belt. Some times we deserved it some times we didn’t. When momma said “Go out and cut me a switch!” we knew we were in for it!
I remember an old gun writer who blamed the current crime wave, in his time, on the safety razor as it did away with the razor strap, which used to be used in place of a belt on kid’s behinds.
Good points. It’s hard to imagine many situations more terrifying than being a helpless 4-yo and having a man you barely know, the size and & strength of Peterson, getting totally out of control beating you. That’s not a kind or degree of fear this child will forget any time soon.
Any and every person who defends Peterson in any way is an ignorant POS.
Lots of beatings going on in ghetto homes, I don't see the gang bangers having benefited from what they call discipline here. I see anger.
I’m a strong believer that spanking, when done NOT out of anger, is an effective and often necessary disciplinary tool. But I will NEVER support the purported “right” of any parent to abuse their children. Ever.
Agree. I received my share as a child. They were all deserved. There’s a line not to cross. Peterson doesn’t get that.
That’s the key element, or close to it. I.e.: the world of difference between a father who lives in the home and displays his love for his children on a routine basis, and on occasion must discipline them, and a virtual stranger who lives his own life, who every now and then sees his children, and seems always to find a need to deliver mega-’discipline’ on those rare occasions.
There really isn’t much overlap between these two situations. The discipline a father metes out to a son he knows and loves cannot be compared to the discipline a near-stranger dishes out in a furious rage. It’s not even apples and oranges; more like apples and rotten eggs.
I wish I had a $ for every switch I had to pick that was used on my legs. To think of my mother as a "child abuser" literally makes me LOL!
Kids don't reason until they are around 7. Chances are all these boys are learning is that a big person can beat up little persons and that's OK. What's sad about the whole thing is that it was because one little boy pushed another child, not sure older or younger off a video motorcycle game. Really? That warrants all this?
I don't think Peterson deserves prison yet. But if he does not get help he will seriously hurt and possibly kill one of these kids.
The hypocrisy is stinking up the place here. Murdering a baby in the womb is fine - a woman’s right but disciplining the ones tha survive so that they dont become a burden to society is a crime Upside down I tell you.
Teh other side of the hypocrisy, is we see all these delinquents out there that were never disciplined by their parents and we have the nerve to say “what the hell is wrong with this generation”
‘it was because one little boy pushed another child, not sure older or younger off a video motorcycle game. Really? That warrants all this?’
I hadn’t realized it was such a minor offense. Welts all over the kid—including his scrotum—for nothing more serious than that? It’s heart-wrenching.
You’ve got these innocent little kids, and sure they should be disciplined. But they should be loved too—not by a sperm donor but by a live-in father. Instead they get beaten severely for the smallest offense. & as you said in a prior post, that matures into anger, & anger gets vented in violence. That is not the result good discipline brings about.
I have seen it way to often. Beat the kid and he sure as heck will leave you alone for awhile. It's sickening. But this is what happens when you have 40 years of stupid people raising stupid people. Adrian Peterson may have gotten a beating as a kid, but he also had a talent for football. I am pretty sure everybody kissed his butt after that was discovered. He probably don't know better either which is why I am not demonizing him. But he needs help!
‘He probably don’t know better either which is why I am not demonizing him. But he needs help!’
Amen to that; agree totally.
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