Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.What the hell are these people smoking?! My old man's belt was the guardian of Western civilization around our house in his day, and he taught me there are things you just Do Not Do.
But no, let's wait, and go soft, and let the cops pick these kids up on misdemeanor charges 15 years later. I'm sure criminal records will be better for them than a good belt-assisted butt-warming or two when they're still young enough for the lesson to take.
spare the rod and spoil the child.
(now some would say that that is a nazi-like point of view and that the municipality is morally superior to a cowardly father who “beats” his children and probably abuses his wife.)
Wow, my father would still be in prison if they arrested you for spanking with a belt when I was growing up. My father had this “skinny” alligator belt and man did it hurt! Of course there were also the “switches” which we were required to go pick before our punishment was rendered. I had 4 brothers and there was no need to trim the hedges in our backyard because they were always picked clean!
Everybody is a criminal these days.
As long as the “marks” are on his butt and the skin is not broken.....there is no abuse, IMHO.
Absolutely insane.
However, if I had a case of “deliberately breaking a toy” from a 7-year-old (which I’m sure I have!), I’d refuse to replace the toy and select several others to give to the poor. Longer-term impact than a spanking, AND gets some clutter out of the house.
On a totally different point, I wonder if this child’s parents are married?
Belts, fly swats, hair brushes, you name it. I turned out fine.
Looking at kids now days, there needs to be a whole lot more spankings doled out.
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.Obviously the father should have reasoned with the seven year old and negotiated an appropriate punishment that falls into the nanny state rules of ‘It takes a Village’ handbook as to not damage his developing socialist mentality
My mom used a wooden spoon as my little bad ass, then she hung in on the wall in the kitchen. when I misbehaved, she needed only to point to it. I got the message.
Sheesh! My 9th grade Algebra teacher had a frat paddle with big holes drilled in it. It left red welts with flesh pink polkadots! I caught that thing with my butt several times!
My wife used a wooden spoon. I used my hand, but I made them come to me to get it. I never went to get them,I called them and made them come to get it. Unless it was a major violation, only one swat. If they didnt come I waited till later when they forgot and they got double. They knew they were going to pay.
I agree with the arrest.
If the mother thought the situation warranted bringing in the police, then I’ll take her word for it.
Pr 20:30 - The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
“The blueness of the wound” refers to a bruise which may sometimes occur when using the rod on the buttocks or the meaty part of the back of the thigh. “Stripes,” of course, include those red welts.
This would make many American pastors diminish their teaching on child discipline. It will make us intensify ours.
Well, I’m in at about 24 posts, and almost every one of them includes a reference to getting spanked at some time in their early lives. All turned out OK, and (at least in regards to participants in this thread) all turned out conservative.
Could that be part of what separates us from Dhimmis? Do libs share this experience or is it part of the fundamental breakdown in child development that twists libs into such rudderless “moral” relativists?
This marriage is doomed. Calling the cops on your husband under the guise of concern for a child who obviously will be fine ... wow, that must qualify for the textbooks.
Passive aggressive from hell.
People today can’t tell the difference between discipline and cruelty.
For some reason us girls were excluded from that form of punishment.
I asked dad after I had grown up and he told me, he never hit us girls because he never wanted the boys to think it was okay to hit any female regardless of her age.
Welcome to the nanny states of America.
I hated it when I heard my dads web welt coming out but I what I hated worse was to see him with a Barbers strapping belt that hurt worse but I deserved it. When I got a licking I kept on ticken and no I am not a Timex.