Posted on 09/14/2014 5:46:15 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Barkley told CBS’s Jim Rome that if tough standards were applied, that would lead to a lot of black parents potentially being in jail.
ROME: It doesn't matter where you're from, right is right, and wrong is wrong. It doesn't matter where you're from –
BARKLEY: I don't believe that because listen we spank kids in the South. I think the question about did Adrian Peterson go overboard. But listen Jim we all grew up in different environments. Listen, every black parent in my neighborhood in the South would be in trouble or in jail under those circumstances.
BARKLEY: Oh yeah, I got beat with switches. First of all, I don't like the term, when the media talks about it and somebody just said on television, beating a child. Listen –
ROME: That's what that was, Chuck –
BARKLEY: Well, we call it spanking or whooping our kids. ROME: If I see open wounds and bruises throughout a body that is a beating.
BARKLEY: Sure. Those pictures are disturbing. I think Adrian said he went overboard. But as far as being from the South, we all spanked our kids. I got spanked, me and my two brothers. ROME: Again Chuck, not now. 1964 is one thing, 2014 is another.
ARKLEY: And that’s fair. I totally agree with that. Maybe we need to rethink it but I think we have to really be careful trying to teach other parents how to discipline their kids. That’s a very fine line.
ROME: Alright, some disagreement here.
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Have you seen the photos?
I agree completely - some kids need that swat on the butt, some can be talked to and understand what they did wrong. I have no problem with a swat - repeatedly hitting a child with any object, enough to cause what he did to that 4 year olds legs is disgusting.
I’m not following your question - did I mention parents?
Today that dad wouldn’t be there. Good chance the kids wouldn’t be either.
Yes it does.
I notice no one posted the pictures either.
They give lie to all the emoting.
My black friend's dad was a good man. Raised his three boys to be respectful and hard workers, and they volunteered plenty at church. He was strict and kept them in line. You're right, not that many cohesive families today where the dad sticks around and does the right things.
My dad threatened me with a belt whipping from early on, but it never came to that. He never laid a hand on me. The fear of the belt kept me in line. In school, I got punished. School admins had paddles to swat us. In middle school, teachers would force us kids to paddle each other. Somewhat humiliating for two of us to go in front of the class, and take turns swatting each other with a paddle. But it worked at making us behave. Principal had different size paddles with holes in them; they really hurt. Us kids took it, never complained, and parents never got upset about it.
Kids today get away with bad behavior because they can, everyone is in fear of being jailed for abusing kids. A little spanking can't hurt much but is no longer administered. Crazy times.
The gigantic freakishly athletic pro football player couldn’t even avoid hitting a four year old on the scrotum with a switch that was hitting hard enough to leave cuts. I mean come on.
Freegards
It wasn’t just his legs, he got him on the scrotum. Hopefully that wasn’t cut too.
Freegards
I read that - and all the way down to his ankles - I don’t care what his son did, you don’t beat a four year old like that
70 years ago every parent in existance would have been in jail!
You got it from your mother when you got home after getting whipped in school and then gain when the old man got home!!!!
I agree with Charles
Witches with switches
Disciplining is part of parenting
Hell yeah
I lived it
And as a 56 year old boomer with young kids in the South
Mine are the best mannered....I light em up if they act up or sass their mom
And I’m still soft by how I was reared
Most younger parents I see just blab and talk crap
Especially the moms...who run the homes anyhow today
This is middle to upper middle class America today
Pitiful
Come on Wardaddy - you would beat a four year old enough to leave those kind of marks? And be so out of control you would hit your son’s testicles in the process (he texted the baby mamma that)... I don’t believe you would ever do anything like that.
I generally agree with your posts but not on that
And statistics overwhelmingly do not support the notion that race is not a factor in who to be wary of for street crime by stranger
Please don’t retort that there are bad white people too
I know that...I used to be one
(No...lol...I did not change race)
Maybe we could all become racially ambiguous like in a coffee commercial
....is she black...oriental.....Asian.....latina.....Indian.....Arab?
You know the one...dark.capri pants..old school white keds..... white cotton oxford with tail out ....hair kinda soft fro-ish........lounging on the big pillow chair sideways reading Toni Morrison.....glowing with self assurance and progressive righteousness
I haven’t yet
I prefer a big paint stirring paddle or last resort...leather
The hand is frowned biblically
I fear this sort of episode is just more momentum towards banning spanking
Spankings can leave welts....redness...maybe a slight bruise
Worst I ever got was from Coach Carlisle....a one legged man...man could he pivot
My buttocks were like yellowy eggplant
You woulda for sure recoiled
I’ve only had one of five who really needed it...the others were mostly whipped for parity
So many of the posts here have been about a spanking someone got as a teenager - this was a four year old child who doesn’t even live with this man most of the time. Peterson allegedly texted this childs mother saying he had hit his testicle in the process but stated again no one was going to act up around him. I’ve been madder than hell at a child before but never got so out of control that I would have done anything near that. Again, this was a four year old - not a teen. Spanking and beating are two different things.
I agree with your comments and observations.
My school entry inservice at home was this.
You get in trouble at school, you come home and get the same punishment you got there. That teacher gets the same respect you give us. Don’t forget it.
Not a chance...
“I’ve only had one of five who really needed it...the others were mostly whipped for parity”
I bet that made the one real popular with his siblings once they figured it out.
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