Posted on 04/30/2005 6:19:34 AM PDT by holymoly
Once! Me and brothers were beat regularly with the race track. :-) Thanks MOM!
LOL...
my mom would say "I brought you into this world, I can sure as hell take you out of it"....
Not to worry, he resumed his belt'n before the the night was through.
LOL!
I got it with a gnarly peach tree switch, leaving welts. I deserved it.
Yep, wooden spoon or wooden paintstick (yyy-ouch!!) was the mid-grade punishment (above hand-to-backside, but below the 'capital punishment' of the belt, administered by Dad....but only meritted once or twice).
It sounds like you had good parents.
We have a 18" fiberglass rod. Very rarely used but the scare value works almost every time.
I suspect my kids will never be handcuffed for throwing a tantrum.
Sometimmes we co camping with some other families. When laying out the rules (fire pit, axes etc.)and boundaries, I always say "And for my kids, if any other adults catch you breaking these rules, they have my permission to yell at you. The other parents always chime in "me too."
I too, burned it when I was about 12 yrs. old..
My father recounted tales of freinds that were actually horse-whipped when they mis-behaved..
( he also pointed out that it was considered "extreme" punishment even for his time, but not for His Father's time..)
"Nice to see that Mr. Enloe is taking the matter of his individual rights being eviscerated in such a polite manner."
Isn't it? Seriously, he should shut up and get a lawyer.
We "older" folks do long fervently for the good ole days when Dad was Father and Mom was Mother. Father was loved but more feared. Mother was dispenser of good behavior and manners. Many times I was spanked with the flat brush or switch and then whipped with the belt when Father came home. I am thankful to both my parents for the "right" thinking and discipline that I enjoy today. Poor Father would certainly be under the jail today. He left bruises. I wish he was alive so I could thank him again.
Most kids now days would greatly benefit from a occasional swat with
the "Board of Education"
Thank you for saying what I wanted to say. I shy away from starting an argument, but you are right that boys at that age are the very ones who need the capital punishment the most. The Marine Corps is a prime example of what strict discipline can do for a young man. The lack of discipline is what is wrong with the young males in our society. We've allowed a couple of generations of males to go "uncivilized" and we are reaping the results.
There is a point where boys are expected to grow into reasonable men. Twelve years old is not four years old. It's time to respect their intelligence and teach them how to be men of self-restraint who don't need their butts whupped. Twelve years old is plenty old enough for a boy to learn the expectations involved in becoming a man...and men don't need spankings.
We have lowered the expectations of boys to the point of madness. Young men need direction and training for their future, but they'd be better off learning self-discipline from within instead of consequences from without. I've noticed that the school of hard knocks is full of hard heads.
I went to a Catholic grade school, and most of my Nuns were Marines, at heart. Only those who were on a death wish pushed them.
My 5th grade Nun, who was about 70 -and had served as a Missionary in Bolivia way back when- was nobody to mess with even at her advanced age.
She was wont to walking between desk rows when teaching. One day as she was wending her way around the corner of the final row, a classmate tugged on her veil. She turned around and slapped him, across the face, about 4 times. His face was so red, and I distinctly remember his ears (they stuck out a bit) flapping about during the smackdown.
We had little sympathy for him, because the unwritten rule was: you may not touch the person of a Nun. We were scared by the incident, but we knew he got what was coming to him.
There were excesses, but on balance those times were preferable, because they induced fear and respect for authority, and as a consequence produced better citizens.
When the education and formation formula begins with the self-esteem prescription, you're bound to produce narcissits and pansies.
I can see why this kid called his Mom, but his Mom should have handled the situation differently, if in fact, this was just discipline.
The bigger problem of course for this kid, is he was born to a couple who decided divorce was the best option. This kid doesn't win either way.
Shame! Shame on you Mr. Policeman - in addition to Protect and Serve - you are supposed to use some COMMON SENSE.
Utter crap. This father was doing his duty.
Had my father not put the fear of the light into me at an early age I could have grown up to be the worst kind of most dangerous scum.
Here's another funny one, Hank.
Raising three boys is not an easy task. Boys will be boys. Anyway, my three boys back-talked their Mom and I told them to go out into the woods and find a stick so that I could swat them on the butt with it.
About a half hour later (giving Dad enough time to hopefully cool down, of course) we watched them coming down the trail dragging a 15' tree limb about 6" in diameter.
I couldn't keep a straight face when they presented it to me and announced that they were ready to accept their punishment. His Mom and I figured that the effort and time it took them to haul in this "timber" was sufficient payment for their disrespect. We all started laughing and had a long family talk.
They never smart-mouthed their Mom again, plus we ended up with some firewood.
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