02-19-2014, 10:14 AM
Most kids would do well with a swat or two on occasion. We got it plenty when I was a kid as did most folks my age I recon. Sometimes at home it was bad, but I don't know if I would call it abuse or assault. My kids never got spanked past 2 years old, they didn't need it, I (we) used some intelligence when raising the kids and treated them like people from a very early age instead of like chattel they most folks seem to. I came out ok and my kids came out great, my daughter and her husband have 3 very well adjusted and smart kids, she is a Speech Pathologist and he is a Security Consultant, kids are all in gifted classes and as far as I know haven't been spanked in years.
When I was a kid, my parents were ignorant, bad parents that went one way on one issue and another on others, very inconsistent, very arbitrary and they raised us the same way, so we got ass beatings pretty regularly. I grew up knowing there was a better way and used it, the results speak for themselves. My brothers stayed in the same environment they grey up in and the results were predictable, the ass beating did no good and continue with their grandkids with the same results.
IMHO, its the same as everything else, there is no Magic Bullet for raising and declining kids, its a process and a recipe. The Bill in question is probably the result of too many people sticking their nose in other peoples business, its been years since I heard of Teachers being able to use spanking (Licks we called them). In my mind that is something that should have been in continuous use. It changed because some people didn't want Anyone deciplining their kids (including themselves it seems), kids got away with all kinds of things, teachers are now threatened with their jobs or charges if they touch a kid, wrong direction to me.
I don't know about "Restoring Parental Rights" that implies that they were taken away by someone, I think most people abdicated them and should take them back up as is their responsibility. I think it would to some degree restore discipline in school, the kids would know that there are indeed consequences and when I was a kid the worst part was knowing your friends knew you got spanked and cried, pretty effective tool.
When I was a kid, my parents were ignorant, bad parents that went one way on one issue and another on others, very inconsistent, very arbitrary and they raised us the same way, so we got ass beatings pretty regularly. I grew up knowing there was a better way and used it, the results speak for themselves. My brothers stayed in the same environment they grey up in and the results were predictable, the ass beating did no good and continue with their grandkids with the same results.
IMHO, its the same as everything else, there is no Magic Bullet for raising and declining kids, its a process and a recipe. The Bill in question is probably the result of too many people sticking their nose in other peoples business, its been years since I heard of Teachers being able to use spanking (Licks we called them). In my mind that is something that should have been in continuous use. It changed because some people didn't want Anyone deciplining their kids (including themselves it seems), kids got away with all kinds of things, teachers are now threatened with their jobs or charges if they touch a kid, wrong direction to me.
I don't know about "Restoring Parental Rights" that implies that they were taken away by someone, I think most people abdicated them and should take them back up as is their responsibility. I think it would to some degree restore discipline in school, the kids would know that there are indeed consequences and when I was a kid the worst part was knowing your friends knew you got spanked and cried, pretty effective tool.