CHILD'S PADDLING UPSETS FAMILY

The Shelbyville Times-Gazette ^ | 28 October 2005 | Clint Confher

[Paleo Conservative]

I graduated in 1965 in a small town but fairly large school. It was a different world.

You graduated from high school 15 years before me. If you had gone to my high school, you would have graduated with Farah Fawcett.

[Praxeus]

"I hate adults who hit kids"

Moonbat.

[najida]

Excuse me?!?

Do you have a clue what you're saying here?
Think about it darlin'.

[Praxeus]

You hate people that spank their kids..

I've thought about it enough.

[Dan from Michigan]

If this is private school, it's their rules. If it's public school, than that's not right.

If I was the kid, I would have either walked away and went home or attempt to knock him out if that going home wasn't an option. I might have won, or I might have lost, but I wasn't going to simply bend over and take one. I'm nobody's punching bag.

[CindyDawg]

There is a difference between hitting and spanking. When you are old and feeble and have to depend on one of these little darlins you better hope you get one that was disciplined as a child.

[Tax-chick]

Because of the infraction, the bus was stopped and Samuel Manus was told to sit behind the driver. The boy told the Times-Gazette that he told the driver, "'If you don't leave me alone, I'll get my daddy on this.'

Sounds like a whole trouble-making family.

[najida]

I didn't say spank
I said beat...

I said beat like the boy we had admitted last week who was a mass of bruises.

I mean beat like my brother who doesn't remember a day prior to his 11th birthday.

I mean beat.

I mean ran down like an animal by a person 3 times your size with an out of control temper and a weapon in their hand that can leave effin' scars.

I mean beat like the 8 year old who put a belt around her neck and tried to hang herself because she effin' had enough.

I mean beat by someone who has control of your life, your food, your shelter and soul....

So my little moonbat, namecallin''friend'

READ MY LIPS>>>>>>>

I MEAN BEAT!

So, darlin,'
Sugar booger,
sweetie pie...
If you think 'beatin' a kid is OK,

I hate you too.

Bless your lil ole heart.

[najida]

Read my post to the Moonbat sweetie.

I know the difference between discipline and insanity.

The problem is, I have seen and continue to see more of the insanity.

[Praxeus]

Lady, you said "hit". Not all that other rigamarole in your last post.

Hate all you want.

[najida]

I apologize for getting my words crossed. To me, hit and beat are the same thing. I do hate adults who hit and beat kids (Not spank) there is a big, big difference.

Spanking, loving discipline, yeah...
Creating a decent adult for the future, yeah.
But if you can't tell the difference between teaching and harming...stay the hell away from children please.

[CindyDawg]

I would guess most of us have been on the receiving end or witnessed abuse but getting a fire butt occasionally isn't going to hurt you.

[ravinson]

CHILD'S PADDLING UPSETS FAMILY

I didn't have time to read the article, but I would have no objection to a child's paddling provided that he wears a life jacket:

[najida]

I agree.

All I'm saying is that there are some folks who get out of control and cross a line and shouldn't be around children.

In my personal experience, brutalizing and beating has the opposite effect in the long run. Instead of respecting authority, you see it as the enemy.

[Tax-chick]

It sounds like the boy in this story had been encouraged by his parents to be disruptive in school. However, I think spanking a boy that age is foolish. Suspension, if his behavior was bad enough, would be more likely to get his parents' attention.

[najida]

My first post was in response to another poster's description of a sadist teacher.

I agree that a spanking at this point in time is a bit, well, pointless.

[Tax-chick]

I understand.

[contemplator]

"...if you can't tell the difference between teaching and harming..."

Very wise of you to put those two words together. For two seemingly completely different words, there is a very fine line between the two. One takes a lot of time, effort and hard work, the other is a knee jerk reaction. Most people can't tell the difference or even know where the line is, and to argue with them is pointless as they have already justified it themselves and don't want to hear otherwise (the other path takes a lot of hard work). Even most of those who seem to have it figured out when it comes to violence/physical abuse don't recognize it when it comes to emotional abuse and what they can't solve by hitting they try to resolve by screaming/insulting/name calling. You'll see a lot the same knee jerk type reaction here on FR when others won't accept their view of the world. What is scary is when it comes from people in places of authority in the overall society and not just in their own homes.

[PAR35]

My point was that dear old dad would start to get the picture if he was required to take the medicine.

I doubt it. Did you catch the part about the 'school resource officer (cop) who had to get involved the last time the father showed up? There was a reason the punk threatened the bus driver with a 'If you don't leave me alone, I'll get my daddy on this.' And that was the punk's side of the story, not the driver's.

[CindyDawg]

My rules are that children should not be spanked if the parent isn't in control. Spanking in anger, or fear( and it's probably happened with most of us) is not teaching.