[autumnraine]

Sad for the life that is ruined for this boy, but wonder the future damage the world has been saved.

I wonder if they will keep in a facility. I doubt it.

Let’s say he’s been keeping a tab since he was four, and that’s early to start keeping up with that stuff, that’s nearly a spanking a day.

No child that I have ever met does so much bad that they deserve that. And I’ve met some doozies.

[Soothesayer]

I agree. This is a case of child abuse. I am siding with the boy on this one.

[muawiyah]

It's a rare child that can keep such a lengthy and continuous record. If what the cops are telling us is true I'd suspect the father was beating him to suppress the child's innate genius and get him to behave like an idiot.

I can wrap names around this particular problem.

[brytlea]

If any form a discipline doesn’t work, you have to try something else. Clearly, if they really were spanking him that often it wasn’t working. Discipline isn’t about a parent letting off steam, it’s about teaching a kid the limits. I had one son who just became more defiant when we spanked him. I had to use other things.

[ukie55]

1,000 spankings is one a day for less than three years. Considering that there could have been some tough days where more than one was administered, that would mean that there had to be days when there was none.

My kids would go through spells when they were really defiant and it would be tough on all of us and then they’d go for weeks without a need for any discipline. I couldn’t tell you the average though. Never thought to keep a record.

But the thing that’s weirder is that an 8 year old decided on a limit, kept track, and then blew away his dad when he reached it. There’s something chillingly cold-blooded about that child. He sounds like a psychopath.