Posted on 12/22/2009 4:04:12 AM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
Being a wayward child,inventive in my mischief, I was spanked with some regularity. A “Wait till your Father gets home” deal. First I got to dread it; then the reasonable explanation why it was coming, by the end of which I am thinking “OK, do it already!”. And this is in the day of thin belts and welts on the butt.
Otra vez, a teacher slapped me in the face, hard. Mother raised enough cain, got her fired. The term gluteus maximus aptly describes the juvenile butt; an appropriate place for such discipline. I didn’t like spanking, but retrospect, I love my parents, they were right, and it did way more good than passing harm.
Corporal punishment; no problem, it does get a child’s attention. Arms, chest and such, that crosses the line.
These kids had bruises all over their body. Clearly not a spanking. This headline is inflammatory. The police likely did the right thing.
You got it perfectly right.
Agreed. It’s morons like this woman that make it impossible for caring parents to discipline their children
In the inner city, it’s not uncommon for a spanking to be a bathtub full of scalding water.
Your mom was a shoe-thrower too? Mine used the OLD Dr. Scholl’s -— the ones made of solid wood, and she had (and has, I assure my own children) a wicked fastball. My brother and I got real good at ducking and running.
Regards,
I just hope it wasn’t one with a spiked heel! In the 1950s when I was four, Mom washed my mouth out with Ivory soap because I’d uttered a curse word. Even the NEIGHBOR spanked me and returned me to my parents when I refused to stop sitting in the middle of the street. I’ve danced to the belt or switch many a time. But I thank God for parents who nipped my rebelliousness in the bud. Their discipline worked beautifully—it broke my will but not my spirit. And as a teenager, I was popped in the mouth a few times for disrespect to my mom. She said, “I don’t care if you’re twenty-five! You’ll not talk to me that way!” By the way, I’m 58 and I STILL do not mouth off to my mother.
Most parents from the 1950s would have been dragged before some judge or body that would declare them unfit and then remove their little angelic darlings from the home for undergoing such “brutal” treatment. I see so many people today who should’ve had their rear ends tanned as a kid.
We had to go and get our own switch from the tree... but I do agree with someone else on the thread. This is not spanking, this is a beating. With that many bruises all over the child’s body, my mom and dad targeted one area only, the behind.
From my own childhood experiences I can say that a parent’s anger coupled with a squirmy, fighting child is not a good combination. In that case, the spanking is not going to be limited to the child’s behind.
Ping Pong paddles against a bare buttocks is very effective providing the parents understand the limits divinely implied in their authrity.
The use of the “rod” is Scriptural. And sometimes it will indeed cause some blue-ness. Achieving blue-ness is not the goal, but it will happen from-time-to-time.
We use a wooden shoe-horn from a hotel that is 13-1/2 inches long. We saded all edges round and smooth.
We have raised seven children of our own, and have five grandchildren. All of them expect the “rod” for any case willful, determined disobedience.
We use the rod without count of swats. The child will cry, and the strikes continue until the children stops crying. The Scriptures say “spare not for their crying.”
Because we have been, with the Lord’s help, rather consistent in this practice from the very early age of each child, it has never been necessary to take the rod with us to any public place.
Along with corporeal discipline, however, must always come positive training and time spent with the children in a loving, nurturing atmosphere. It MUST be a package deal.
Further, when the “rod” is necessary (after age 7 or 8, it is a rarity in our home), a lot of time is spent with the child afterward, and he/she understands the necessity of it, and understands that teaching them to have an obedient heart to parents is helping them to have an obeidient heart to God.
Perents should not allow the state to define proper discipline-—nowadays it will always be defined by the liberal, anti-Christian element in government.
I’m so glad I was raised in the 60’s and 70’s. My mom would’ve had a few life sentences if she had to raise me today.
I am on record as saying “She was RIGHT”. :-)
and a wire coat hanger accross my backside as well. I deserved it too.
That’s one of the main problems in our society now. As my dad would say, there’s a lot people that need a good ass whipping that never got one. We got beat hard when we needed it and it taught us not only respect, but kindness and mercy. And that is something a person who never got the beat down, simply can’t understand.
Stupid Reporter doesn’t know the difference between a spanking and abuse.
Oh man! I thought my mom was the only one who did that!
Agreed. They are trying to confuse everyone that spanking and beating is the same thing.
And if you brought back one too small, she would go get a really big one.
The same here!
True story. When I was about 12, my mother made me go get a switch. Well I had had enough. I decided then to run away. It was about 11:00 am. I went off into the woods for the rest of the day. Around dusk I slinked back and hid in a tree across the road from our house. Every so often my Father would come out and bellow my name. Finally, around 10:00 pm, both my Mother and Father came out and promised not to beat me if I just came home.
So I did. The getting a switch days were over for me that day. From that time forward they thought of worse punishments; various forms of groundings and take aways that frankly, I’d have rather got the switch for!
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