I got the belt, but I don’t think I had bruises or welts. Red marks that went away in a little while, maybe. Straightened me right out too. I’m all for the belt. But a serious beating is not the same thing.
To = too what the heck. Some Biebers need spanked.
This one does sound a bit excessive and I say that as someone who got the belt a few times.
Boy, my parents would have gotten the chair. They were definitely repeat offenders.
You’re a bad man Charlie Brown!
Hard to tell from the story. Sounds like dad went overboard. But I don't agree with grandpa that 6 is too young. You just have to use it and do it judiciously.
He should be placed in jail forever. WELTS???? Come on. I have gotten the belt before and no marks. I have with my kids......no marks. This guy was out of control and abused his child. Throw away the key!!!!!
Welts? Surface bruising?
Get over it... If it's uncomfortable to sit for a few days, take it as a lesson.
Leave the Nanny State out of it.
My parents would have gotten the gas chamber, I guess.
When I was 6 I dipped a kittens' tail in gas and lit it. I didn't quite realize it would actually harm the cat (yes, it survived just fine).
I got a similar whoopin' from my dad...and it was well deserved. It etched into my mind forever to never harm an animal outside killing it for meat...and that must be done mercifully.
Again, it was well deserved and I would hate to think it's now illegal.
Boys need more strident discipline than girls...especially at that 5-10yrs old range.
I had got the belt many times growing up and many times it was the wait that was by far the worse. As I got a little older and a little tougher sometimes I would start to get a little theatrical though in order to mock a punishment. My Dad once hit me so I would hit the floor and faint that I was dead or something. Where it all lead up to was one time I had acted up and my Mom had decided she was going to punish me and she decided to use some wire or something in the television repair shop my family owned. I started screaming bloody murder and she thought I was faking it and being theatrical but the wire left massive welts all down my back. She freaked after seeing what she did. I got over it though. Still love my Mom (she is the greatest!) and actually laugh at it all looking back on it.
There is a difference between whipping a kid ...
1) while in control of your emotions
2) with emotions out of control
I got the belt.. and in retrospect I am a better man for it,
My dad would have got ten consecutive life sentences.
My Dad spanked me with a belt once. Once.
I learn quick.
As someone else wrote, my dad would have got the electric chair, with all beltings his 5 sons had received.
Would need to see injuries and know all of the facts of the case. The reason we are having so much difficulty with the youth of this nation is directly related to incidents like this. 2-3 good spankings at an early age and almost no more severe discipline is necessary.
I’m almost 59 yrs old. My mom was the one who was in charge of punishing me and my siblings when we were young. I can remember the “switch bush” very well. We were the ones who had to pick our switch and strip off the leaves. It had to be a good one with flexibility and strength...and it left welts! Mother also had a razor strap, with about a dozen small holes drilled through the leather. As we got to be in our teens that was the tool of punishment we could look forward to if we strayed from her rules. I only felt the sting of that once but had to sleep on my tummy for about a week until the swelling went down. My mom always told us that it “hurt her more than it hurt us”...I never believed her until I had kids of my own. Thanks mom!
Read the story. He was stomping on the kid’s legs while beating him. This was not a spanking; it was abuse.
He’s a crazed wacko and he needs to be stopped.
Funny thing is my mom is from Jackson, OH and back in the day her father was one of the prominent people there. Both her parents were strict disciplinarians. Her father being Welsh descendant and mom being German descendant. A switch from the tree was common in that household. If they were alive today, they would have been in jail today ! But the kids were raised well and were successful.