Disciplining Children

[ParkTrips]

When I was in First Grade, our principal had a paddle and boy did he use it. That kept the kids there in line pretty darn well. Nowadays I believe many of the teachers should be scared of the children.

[ebl]

^ Part of the problem there is that some parents think their kids can do no wrong. There was a time when the teacher was the boss of the classroom, and it should still be that way today.

 

Eric

[christianscoasters]

When I was littler, around 0-8, my mom would take me into the WOMEN'S bathroom and spank me. Ugh I hate that, but I learned my lesson. My step-mom on the other hand threatens to spank my three-year-old sister, but she never does. And it shows. That girl is the spawn of SATAN!!!

 

So this goes to show that spanking works. My whole entire family was spanked growing up. Except my grandma and her family. They were just thrown against the wall .

[ginzo]

When I was in First Grade, our principal had a paddle and boy did he use it. That kept the kids there in line pretty darn well. Nowadays I believe many of the teachers should be scared of the children.

 

Yeah, and the paddle is toned down from the old days. My dad went to a Catholic grade school in the 1950s that was run by nuns. He said one of the nuns would beat the crap out of the kids with a fiberglass wand. She'd apparently just hit the kids in the back until they had a fair amount of bruises, and this was pretty darn painful.

 

Leaving bruises is abuse, but that's how they rolled 50 years ago. And if you got punished at school you were likely to get another beating when you got home.

[CommanderLock]

^Which is why I won't send my future children to Catholic school.

Okay, the one in my area isn't run by nuns, but I think my kids should get a bit more freedom with a public school. I've already heard stories of Church Summer camps that produced a couple of near-brainwashed kids.

[ginzo]

^Which is why I won't send my future children to Catholic school.

Okay, the one in my area isn't run by nuns, but I think my kids should get a bit more freedom with a public school. I've already heard stories of Church Summer camps that produced a couple of near-brainwashed kids.

 

Uhm, that was how they rolled 50 years ago. The beatings are long gone.

[Vekoma Fan Boy]

I may be a teenager, and thus may not have the best idea of proper methods of "punishment" may be, but hey it's the internet, and I have my right to rant!

I have no clue why half the people are so worried about the mental trauma that may be cause when you spank you kids. If the father is a drunk lowlife, who hits their kids for not holding his ash tray in the right way (a bit exaggerated I know) then obviously the poor child is going to have some issues. However, spanking a child when they do something wrong, and the child already understands what he did, and why it was wrong, is perfectly fine, until I was 11 that's what happened to me when I did something really stupid.

The problem is that some parents don't do the right thing at the right time. The parent(s) should be able to determine the best action to take when a child is misbehaving, but half of them would rather OD on anti-depression pills, and give a half hearted speech to the child. In which case the child will just run rampage and loose his sense of proper judgment.

I say this because I personally know someone who has been living in a situation, where he would be given a generic speech, that he probably didn't understand/care about, every time he did something wrong.

If I were a parent, punishment would simply work like this:

If they did something wrong, but didn't know any better. The child would be told what he did, what the proper course of action would be, and they would be grounded from toys etc, for 1-3 days.

If they did the same thing again, the child would be locked in his room and grounded from toys, and friends, depending on the severity of the action.

Third time, spanking! Sounds a bit cruel, but by the third time, the child should understand, and if all goes well, the child will rarely ever reach this level.

That's a basic system that my parents used, and obviously it would vary greatly depending on context, but it works perfectly. I may have issues, but those are from school incidents that usually involved other people who weren't raised properly trying to jump me etc.

 

(Whew, that was long... )

 

Wow, thanks! You just saved me one long a$$ post! I was pretty much thinking the same! And as for your issues, I have the same problem. *sigh* Why wont people just use condoms? :^