As conservatives, I am guessing that is beyond the comprehension of any of us.
Back in the old days, other people such as teachers were allowed to discipline other people’s children. Perhaps corporal punishment served a useful purpose. Maybe it was fear that kept many children in line, but, whatever the case, children need discipline.
Of course, since we are a liberal culture, corporal punishment has been done away with. And the smart ass kids know it. So they know that any other adults are afraid to discipline them due to fear of lawsuits and other complications. The result is that too many kids run wild. And we’re all supposed to be liberal and accept it. And it amazes me that these parents, who themselves were not allowed to run wild when they themselves were young, allow it in their own kids and don’t discipline their own kids.
Then again, is spanking even still allowed by parents? I heard that a mother recently was arrested for spanking her child. Maybe in this liberal world, even parents are afraid of consequences. They could fear that their kids will go to school and tell the teacher they got spanked. In today’s world, that opens up child abuse investigations.
My mother, a 5' 1" Italian woman, never said to me or my 4 siblings, wait 'till your father gets home.
She had a bamboo switch about 4' long and it tapered to about a quarter of an inch that she would use on us when ever she decided that anyone deserved it.
If you even raised your hand in self defense to ward off a blow, she'd beat you until you knew that you'd never do that again.
If any of us kids would even have thought of hitting our mother, the other four would have beat the hell out of him and then ratted him out to mom so that she could finish him off.
Like a good jockey, she rarely needed to go to the whip, but when she did, you'd have welts for weeks and memories for a life time.
I never saw her have to hit any of us more than one time for each offense, and we were careful to not cross the line {or get caught doing it}.