It seems to me that this alternative discipline psycho babble is a relatively new phenomenon. For generations parents have spanked their kids and society seemed much safer and much more orderly. I think there is definitely a correlation between lack of physical discipline and a society that degrades itself to a godless society. Remember when the phrase "wait 'til your father gets home" put fear into the hearts of children. It was a respectful fear that should be exuded towards all authority figures. In summary, I believe more kids these days need a good spanking. Maybe we would have less of the Columbines (school shootings) and rebelliousness in the world if more Fathers acted like fathers.
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Yeah, that's it. The beatings will continue until moral improves. I'm sure the best way to get kids to behave is to hit them. It won't make them the least bit rebellious or resentful when they finally get away from home. Nope, not at all.
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Yea, and the Victorian era was so much more cultured and clean.
"When I Was Your Age"
I doubt that beating children will make them turn out better. Now, some parents have no idea how to discipline their kids but that that does not give anyone carte blanche to beat children into submission, you retard. It is your job as a parent, to bring up your child well without violence. Trust me, it can be done.
Well,I hope that "orderly" society is not the one in which segregation was the norm, men beat their wives with impunity, two world wars happened, syphillis was much more usual than AIDS today..............jokes aside, Psycho Babble doesn´t exist and the real psychology has shown the effects of severe spanking, among other things because that "godless" society you describe exist more in the anecdotical realm whereas the Slacks, the schoolteacher who killed his student back in the twenties and so on, do. And just for the record, the Columbine kids suffered indeed abuse and were indoctrinated with the weapon worship behaviour of their parents. Moreover, some of the worst killers were abused too as kids. Get better informed before being such a demagoge.
I think spanking has its place, as long as it's not practiced by sadists who mistake sheer bastardry for discipline. Colombie, however, is really, really overestimating the effect a good smack on the bum can have on a badly behaved child. Fuckwit.
Well, we had to live in a SHOEBOX. We'd get up every morning, clean the lake and then eat a lump of dry poisin for breakfast! But we didn'tcomplain--no, we were BETTER for it!
I think the poster is right in that there would be few troubles, including school shootings, if parents acted more like responsible parents. However, violent discipline is unlikely to help raise non-violent children.
I have always acted as a father with my children. However, I have never felt the need to raise my hand in order to teach them discipline.
@Colombie
I believe more kids these days need a good spanking.
Two things happen when kids are spanked as a standard punishment:
The kid will either get more angry and violent or find it as a joke.
If anything, spanking is the lazy way of parenting. Put in the effort when raising your kid, stupid!
I don't see what's fundy about this. You don't have to be a fundy to be child-spanker. Hell. You don't even need to be born-again or saved. I was raised by Catholics* (and Catholic schools)and spanking was just a part of life**. I think you could probably be athiest, or Muslim, or even Unitarian and still spank children.
*You know what fundies think about Catholics.
/Remember when the phrase "wait 'til your father gets home" put fear into the hearts of children./
That phrase did put fear into the hearts of me and my brother, but get this, our father NEVER HIT US. Not once. He didn't even spank us. Parents can discipline their children without hitting them. So your rant is utter nonsense.
Statistics, history and reality disagree.
Also, fine morals you teach./sarcasm
"It's OK to hit smaller and younger than you, especially if they don't act the way you want. It's ok to hit weaker, those who cannot defend themselves. It's OK to instill fear into children. It's ok to teach children blind obedience to authority, even if said authority does despicable deeds. It's better that people do things from fear of punishment than fron the goodness of their heart." Look long and hard into these lines and ask yourself: Is this alright? Is that what I trully believe? And is it worth it?
And if the answer to even one of those questions is yes, then you trully are a despicable human being.
So, if parents show children that being violent
"society seemed much safer and much more orderly"
Statistics bear out that world had all the problems we have today. Your fantasy sixties tv heroes were not based on the average or regular people. For one example: Sixties tv didn't report any rapes, incest cases, church abuse, Goverment or athourity abuse or world news. All that shits been happening since the beginning
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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