Posted on 04/12/2010 9:08:51 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
I’ve always wondered how how a parked car (see gear shift lever) can do 99 mph with the door (see dome light on) open.
Strange, huh?
OTOH, they definitely have a shot at being POTUS.
A load of crap.
My children understood quite clearly that I would spank them and for what. Yet if queried, I would most times show up in the hadn’t spanked group. I’ll stack my children, both grown now, against any others in terms of citizenship, responsibility and decorum.
The issue is how and when to spank as part of a total disciplinary system. “A few good whacks” as a general disciplinary tool, is neither effective or called for.
Yep, “I brought you into this world, I can take you out and make another look just like you,” just doesn’t have quite the same ring coming from a female.
CC guy: “Is this the storyline we’re going with?”
LOL! That one got a chuckle out of me. Thanks.
Mothers shouldn’t spank their kids; that’s dad’s job!
A real spanking has NOTHING to do with aggression.
Correlation does not prove causality.
Ban spanking... emphasize tazing. :-)
In our home we call it “Applying the board of education to his seat of knowledge.”
Not only that he was wrong, but it was all theory. (I don’t know where it is either).
I’m sure some of you remember the TV series “The Little Rascals”. It was a staple show in our home. There was a lot of spanking on that show. Hard spanking. I loved it when one of the kids would get in trouble and then stack books in their shorts so the spanks wouldn’t hurt so bad! LOL.
My mother used to threaten spanking a lot - and spanking with the dreaded “pancake turner”. She only spanked me one time. It was the shear fear of getting a spanking that kept me in line...at least until I outgrew her.
“...just doesn’t have quite the same ring coming from a female.”
Ya wanna bet? Clearly you’ve never met my mother.
Heck, my mother would make me go out and get the switch to beat my butt with, and if it wasn’t big enough, she’d go out and bring back the entire tree.
Thats funny :) Fake, yes, but still funny.
Great answers, what a laugh.
If you fail to whip your son then you will get a woosified girlyman that thinks that Martha Stewart is required viewing.
Yeah. I have 6 grandchildren. One is aggressive. She gets spanked, BECAUSE she’s aggressive. She’s not aggressive because she gets spanked. What asininity.
“Research finds spanking has long-term negative effects on children’s behavior.”
This has to be understood in the context of today’s politically saturated academic environment. ‘Negative effects’ can mean male children who are competitive, and traditionally masculine. These people see the ideal as ‘girly metrosexuals’ who preen themselves and live by their emotions. ‘Aggressive behavior’ is how they denigrate courage and moral resolve. Considering the source and the context, this study validates spanking as the key to raising men and women of character.
It is mothers who use spanking as part of the first response who create the aggresive child. If spanking is the up the chain of elevated consequences, the child learns that physical is not the appropriate first response.
Consider the typical reaustrant scene. I child behaving inappropriately. The parent says, "Stop that" and whack, whack, whack.
With my children, it was first corrective instructions, if not immediately effective, it was a trip to the restroom or foyer for more explicit instruction. If this did not yield the desired results, then it was a trip to the car for you guessed it...whack, whack, whack. Never had to make the trip to the car more than once for either child. They understood what escalating consequence were and that I would put in whatever time was necessary for the situation. They learned to cut their losses early.
Going back six generations from my Grandsons, we have had no persons jailed or involved any any action that would be considered “aggressive”. My own childhood included occasional correcting by Grandfather’s,handed down,homemade leather strop. 24 inches long with a 1/2’ hole on one end,so it could be hung on a nail. It would leave a nice red spot on one’s bottom.
Mom didn’t wait for Dad to come home!
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