Kid arrested for opening christmas presents early.

[MisterBob]

Instead of taking the easy way out and beating defenseless children, try instilling good values into them at an early age. Intelligent people from on beating children because it is the coward's way out.

[burrito]

Set a pattern for discipline. 1st Warning. 2nd Warning. Beat their ass. NEVER DEVIATE.

Yea... my mum gave one warning then would proceed to tear into us as best she could. Usually that one warning would come AS she was stomping over to beat me anyways, but eh, somewhat consistant.

Beatings only work if they actually GET to the kid. Any one of us who's been through some fairly severe parental ass kickings can actually recall the few "good" beatings that set us in line. I have a friend who's little "oopsie" is like.... immune to having his ass beat, sits there and laughs infact ;x

In the case of this woman... she needs to have her ass beat for shrugging off parenting skills ;x Today's parents are too soft for their own good.

[Maguspk]

Instead of taking the easy way out and beating defenseless children, try instilling good values into them at an early age. Intelligent people from on beating children because it is the coward's way out.

You've obviously never dealt with a developing child before. They're like an animal in the beginning. Simple good/bad reward/punishment systems are the only way they can comprehend what is acceptable and what isn't. You can't sit a baby down and talk to them about what's right and wrong and "instill good values into them."

[Demosthenes]

Instead of taking the easy way out and beating defenseless children, try instilling good values into them at an early age. Intelligent people from on beating children because it is the coward's way out.

lol whut? seriously, not every kid turns out ok without a beating.

[SephYuyX]

Beating is the wrong word for it.

Spanking is a great way to discipline, nothing crazy like with a peice of wood or belt and not all the time, but when things really get out of control. Just 2 or 3 slaps.

I see so many kids act out with their parents in public places, or the kid will be violent with them or other objects, and they do nothing. I mean the kid will literally knock over a row of candy and cry and bitch and the mom gives the kid a piece of candy.

I was going to add something like this in http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14126 but forgot.

Discipline like it use to be: 1) Say no to the child, 2) Warn them theyll get a spanking, 3) Spank.

Discipline how it is today: 1) No, no candy this time, 2) We'll get it next time if youre good! 3) Oh ok, heres some candy,

After a spanking see how many times that incident happens again, hint: its <= 1

[Eaglestrike]

Instead of taking the easy way out and beating defenseless children, try instilling good values into them at an early age. Intelligent people from on beating children because it is the coward's way out.

You've obviously never dealt with a developing child before. They're like an animal in the beginning. Simple good/bad reward/punishment systems are the only way they can comprehend what is acceptable and what isn't. You can't sit a baby down and talk to them about what's right and wrong and "instill good values into them."

My ex-fiancee's family all worked like this, none of them got beatings and they were all good students and good people (she's the youngest in the family at 22). But they're certainly the exception...lol

[Dezzimal]

She's probably a wet noodle of a parent is all. Can't stick to anything she says. If I opened a present early, my parents would have returned it to the store and brought me along to watch them do it. I love punishments like that, and am also pro-corporal punishment.

[Cesaria]

My mum never smacked me (mainly cos the one time she did I bruised in the shape of a hand mark - I bruise insanely easy) but by heck when she warned me something would happen if I carried on pushing my luck... it did.

If I didn't tidy my room when asked - she'd put everything that was on the floor in a bin bag and I'd have to go rescue it from the bin men. If she said I was grounded or was losing pocket money - by heck I lost it.

Sounds to me like another cop-out mother wanting to pass the buck for implementing consequences onto anyone but having to do it herself - like the ones who come into school expecting ME to tell their kids off for refusing to go to bed on a night or the like.

[Vail]

most people I know who are above the age of 20 now got spanked atleast when they where young children (5-12ish)

Children as much as I was one and at the time didn't like it: now that I'm older and wiser I know what was done to me was right.

I got the belt a few times but it's never more then a few wacks and my parents never tried to scar or injure me.

You gotta becareful with using corporal punishment on children (not what you do but how you do it) you can't let your own anger as a parent take over and let the anger in you beat the child, it's gotta be you beating them with a clear head and understanding of what your doing.

Alot of people who think of children being punished physicaly usually invision stuff like child abuse on the scale of physical assault. Which is NOT what anyone of us (I hope) is advocating

I did alot of bad things when I was a kid, and I can honestly say every beating I got was well well deserved. My most memorable beating was at my grandparent's house (my dads) and I was throwing gravel at passing cars. I got caught pretty fast and since I was at my grandparent's my Dad decided to do it the way it was done when he was a child.

My grandparent's house is out in the country and they have a nice big willow tree in front (those of who know what kinda tree that is knows where this is going)

I had to pick my "switch" and got 3 good wacks with it, that was the last time I ever got a beating and I have never done anything since that my father would have beat me for. (no not even behind thier backs)

Well except one thing I cuss like a sailor but for my background that's fairly normal (I was a sailor in the Navy after all)

[zakhiel]

I, too, was a recipient of the dreaded spankings. They were pretty much always administered by my mom - who would use her hand usually, if the bad thing was severe enough, a belt or switch. I never had to go out and 'pick my own' or whatever, she would just pick one. Eventually I got too old for spankings though... when you start laughing at them when they do it because it no longer really hurts (not because it's been done so often, but because you've grown stronger and they've grown weaker) it's time to up the ante. That's when my parents started the grounding. Basically, all they had to do was take away my TV/videogame privileges.

For instance, if I did poorly on my progress report or report card (one is mid-semester, other end-semester for those unfamiliar), I would be grounded from one to the other. An F on progress report, grounded until report card comes out and I've raised it back up to proper level. Which meant no TV, no videogames, until after 8pm on weekdays - an hour before I had to go to bed. LOL.

My dad has only spanked me maybe five times my entire life - and it HURT LIKE HELL. Basically any time my mom threatened to tell my dad when he got home, I usually immediately fell in line... hahaha.

I remember this one time, I did something bad (can't remember what), and my mom was actually chasing after me w/ a switch. I was maybe 6-8, and was running up the driveway w/ her chasing me. Of course I could run faster, and she eventually gave up and went back to the house. She called my little brother in to eat, and I heard her and tried to sneak my way back in to eat hoping she'd forgotten. Only to find, all the doors were locked. She locked me out at dinner time!

Damn... looking back, maybe I wasn't such a good kid after all. O_O Definitely am now though.

I too think that what was done was right now. I realize now that my parents just wanted me to have a better life than them. They were both HS dropouts, and wanted to instill in me to achieve far better than they did. And it worked, here I am a semester away from graduating college. So def pro-spanking here.

[archibaldcrane]

I can't really remember, honestly, anything I ever did to deserve a rapping - all I remember is my dad saying "You're upsetting your mother" *crack*.

You gotta becareful with using corporal punishment on children (not what you do but how you do it) you can't let your own anger as a parent take over and let the anger in you beat the child, it's gotta be you beating them with a clear head and understanding of what your doing.

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The kid has to be afraid of the pain, not of the parent, or it just seems arbitrary and meaningless.

[Epical]

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...the bane of my existence as a child.