OK. Let’s say a half a century ago.
The point is not the timescale, as you already know. The reason you are hammering the pedantic point is that you can’t argue with the actual one.
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Also, ‘a short, sharp shock to let them know they’ve stepped out of line’ is a common phrase used when dog trainers talk about E-collors. So is @Klopptimist comparing kids to dogs?
Should kids be made to wear muzzles in public? or kept on a leish?
No no no no no. You might. I’m a shit driver, I’m learning all the time. Having driven about 40k miles a year for 10 years with out a scratch, I learned driving humility.
Fascinating insights here, but what were Terry Pratchett’s views on leathering children?
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That’s your second nibble today, Who mentioned “leathering” children? Except you?
Pretty sure there are some “Terry’s” from Warrington, but not this particular one.
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this is why I don’t fucking watch TV. it’s garbage.
That’s not fair, I’ve only had one.
KK earlier.
63 posts in the UK politics thread, should have known and stayed away but idiotically thought something might have happened. You know like someone finding a cucumber in the local supermarket.
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not really politics or news (really) but sort of goes here I guess…
Imagine if your life was scouring a website of a news corporation that you pertain to hate, just to find the most innocuous article with the most tenuous shades of leftism (which is probably actually centrism) to complain about so that you can spend the rest of the day having everyone else tell you how wrong you are, and deep down you know they’re right; just to wake up the next day and run the whole charade again and again and again.
You honestly think that hitting a child is the only way to keep them safe or model good behaviour? That’s fucking scary tbh.
And if you’re advocating smacking an 18 month old toddler I think that’s tantamount to child abuse. Their brains aren’t yet fully developed and they don’t have the communication skills to have their needs met.
And before you ask (as you have to others) I do have kids, and would never smack them. Like all kids they aren’t perfect but they are good and kind, and I’m incredibly proud of them.
EDIT: didn’t want this to come across as judgemental to other posters. Lots of kids are smacked when older and turn out fine. It’s a personal choice until law inevitably changes. But hitting a 1 year old is just wrong IMO.
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This is @Klopptimist we’re talking about. Self confessed Victorian Dad. His kids are lucky he didn’t use a bamboo cane and demand they say ‘thank you sir’ after each thrashing.
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I don’t advocate physical punishment as a method of child rearing, but I do wonder what current methods are to deter kids like this from carrying on. if you got busted stealing from the store when I was a young adult, store security would open the back doors with your head on the way into the back room to wait for the police. watch as the store staff just sits there like a chickenshit as these punks do whatever they want.
My parents used a bamboo cane. They feel real shame about it now. We still love them and knew they loved us. Were just following churches instructions- ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’.
In some ways I think getting hit by a hand is worse. We feared the stick rather than our parents hands. Either way society will look back in 20 years time and think it’s crazy there was even a debate about hitting children
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Do you have children?
Just read the rest of your post. Hope they’re brilliantly well behaved.
Now read the rest of the post
No, wrong. Smacking a child you’ve failed to properly discipline aged 3456789 is wrong.
I smacked Jnr once. It worked.