Yep... a real Dad of the Year:
Posted on 09/17/2014 6:37:46 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
AND the hands.. AND the back.. AND the scotum...
I never ashed my kids and they turned out just fine.
Never knew I was supposed to be ashing them, in fact.
*AND the scrotum
Yep... a real Dad of the Year:
Ha thanks, I updated it...supposed to be “wash”
Yeah I suppose 99 years in jail for that is sufficient. He admitted it was overboard, but I do not see it as a felony. If you want to live in that society where it is, then reap those benefits when they come for you.
If my kids acted up, all it took was A swat on their behind, on top of the diaper of clothing. It served more to startle them. Seemed to work for us.... both children are very productive and never came back home to live with us as adults!
I do proofread. It’s why professionals use copy editors. Thank you for being mine today.
I thought maybe I was supposed to be flicking the ash off my cigarette at ‘em.
“I’m not a child abuser. Neither is Adrian Peterson. He made a mistake, and repented of it. That’s parenting. It’s not child abuse”
No the author is a moron and Peterson is a child abuser. It looks like he made a “mistake” and beat his other four year old from a different baby mama til the kid had a head wound and has a permanent scar over his eyelid.
If your parents “spanked” you as a child as mine did from time to time you know the difference between a spanking and a beating. I never had any marks left on me and have no permanent scars.
If your parents beat you as child like Peterson beat his four year old than yes your parents were child abusers.
I never said it was a felony, nor did I say I wanted that kind of society. I’ve never wavered from my support of disciplinary spanking when needed — however, he crossed a line when he whipped that kid like he did.
But hey — rest easy... Peterson is a professional athlete backed by legions of worshippers and aficionados of whipping kids with sticks, so nothing substantive will happen to him. This will all be forgotten... until he does it again.
Well said. Most liberals I know that want to control how you discipline your children have never had any. I think parenting (besides paying taxes and working for a living) is one of the key factors that converts a liberal to a conservative.
Amen to that. Just because “my daddy done it to me” doesn’t justify what Peterson did to this little boy.
I´m sure a host of people have left a few bruises in the last 100 years on kids trying to teach them lessons. It´s a miracle anyone survives. But I sure don´t see anyreason to keep the guy from playing football. He needs to walk away, leave football to play of the policitcal correct games, and forge a culture upon us all that none of us really want. Aren´t these people who are so concerned about a boy being whipped the same ones that want to abort little tiny humans in the uterus. I´m tired.
I remember what my kids pediatrician said about spanking: the first one is for the child. The rest are for you.
I found that to be good advice.
While I understand ScottinVA’s reaction to the photos, I think he fails to realize the slippery slope trajectory of this whole affair. The definition of child abuse will soon be as broad as the new definition of ‘rape’. In the near future, a skin welt left by you from a spanking may lead to your arrest. Similarly, as with women’s abuse claims, you will be cuffed and jailed based just on the ‘word’ of the supposed victim. Dangerous and interesting times we live in.
Um... no.
And don't worry. He'll be back on the football field again, once the NFLPA gets its way. The wounds on that kid's legs, back, hands and scrotum will heal (probably not too many scars.. this time), and it'll all be forgotten.
Not even “sackcloth”, either?
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