Indiana Senate ponders parental control

Huntington Examiner ^ | 11/02/2009 | Mark Shoffner

[mshoffner]

Decades ago, the parents in Indiana would take an unruly child out behind the proverbial woodshed and give them an attitude adjustment. Many, were the children of ages past that learned discipline from a switch or the hand. Then came the progressive attitude. The attitude that placed.....

[TaxPayer2000]

Now the Indiana Senate has proposed SB205, http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/IN/IN0205.1.html now in committee. It allows the parent, to once again, correct a child's behavior with corporal punishment. It does place rules so that a parent doesn't go overboard and endanger the child. But they have seen the need to allow parent's rule over their child without fear of from Child Protective Services.

[Muddy168]

What a concept! A return to basics and some good, old fashioned common sense. I remember a few “attitude adjustments” growing up and was/am the better for it...later in life. Seems the older I get, the smarter my parents were.

[raisincane]

Our grandson has some real behavior problems that we blame on his mother (she has visitation rights.) He needs his fanny fanned and he would straighten up big time. We live in Indiana too.