A Drug Problem ????.........

My Mom had every window blind stick broke on me and my sister. When I got older I told her once those window blind sticks don't hurt and she pulled out the bread cutting board and said let's try this. Of course I was always on my best behavior by the time Dad came home because he had his belt.

 

Did your Dad get that belt from your Mom???

 

Abuse is wrong and I will not stand for it! However it’s still legal, right, proper and biblical to apply the rod of knowledge to the seat of learning! But this is reserved for when they are in direct disobedience, it’s not the first action you take but rather another tool and option of escalating punishment based on severity of the offense.

The worst thing you can do is threaten and not follow through! This teaches there are no consequences to there actions.

 

You deserved it!

 

Hot Wheels tracks
Redirect Notice

 

That’s beside the point

 

I'm 42, about 2-3 years ago I was at mom's house and we were in her kitchen and she said something to a friend that was in the room. I made a smart assed comment in response. Mom didn't miss a beat, didn't even look, just reached back and flicked her wrist....doubling me over from getting hit in the nuts. She smirked and responded "not so funny now, is it?" And went right back to her story.

 

I remember many of them paddle with a ball on them. A dual use toy. Mom did the same. We could always get one of those when at the store if we asked.
My mother would go to the fair and come home with an arm load of wooden yard sticks. At that time all the lumber companies gave them away at their booths. When we did something wrong, mom would go to her stash and proceed to insert some discipline to our back side. As often as not, the stick would break. She would then get mad because we broke her yard stick and then we would get more whippings. Wait a minute. She was swinging the stick and it wasn't my fault it broke.
For a short man, my dad had the longest leg of any man. If we were catching h**l and ran away, that foot would reach out and be planted in our ars.
My daughter got pregnant when she was a senior. When the baby was teething, she went out and bought everything the drugstore had for teething problems. Nothing worked. I told her, "Give that baby to me." I rubbed some Jack Daniels of his gums and problem solved. She went into panic mode. Someone will report me to Child Services. Send them to me if they do.
It is amazing how things have changed. I don't approve of beating a kid, but a little assertive discipline will make them better. A vast difference between beating and a little butt whipping.
We wonder why the young ones are out of control.

 

I had a teacher , a full figured lady , that always had one of those paddles stashed in (take a guess)



Yep ,her bra, she could whip that sucker out and smack you, before you could say boo

 

An "over the shoulder boulder holder" with a side holster for paddles!

WOW!

 

In 1980 I was in Kindergarden and got mad at the teacher and threw a chair at her. Without even thinking she took me over he knee and paddled my bottom. All my friends said she could not do that, so I told my parents...who proceeded to give me a second spanking for throwing the chair at the teacher and proceeded to tell me that anyone of authority could spank me if I did anything wrong!

I spank my kids, but not very often. Still you would be surprised at the number of restaurants where people come over and say to Katie and I, "Your kids are so well behaved!" Apparently kids running amuck in restaurants is quite common!

 

When I was a sophmore in high school I was at a vocational school. One of my shop teachers was friendly with my mother because he played on a beer league softball team that my stepfather had a team in. She gave him permission to hit me lol.

 

I had a couple teachers in my middle school years (1983-1984) who didnt put up with any bull from any smartmouthed 13 year olds. One of them a science and math teacher kept a drafting T-square at the ready to slam down on the desk of any student not paying attn to the lesson at hand, the T-square was also pressed into service as a whip if students were caught shooting spitwads, fighting etc. The other guy was a p.e. teacher who had a 1 inch thick wooden paddle and he handled discipline matters for the principal also. The p.e. teacher was also the football coach and was very popular with the students and parents. The teacher with the T- square was kinda mean and and up getting in trouble with the schoolboard and some parents.

 

Mrs TD was restaurant manager for 26 years...oh could she tell you some stories!
Their stores have a huge salad bar and needless to say, kids should not go to the salad bar alone!!! (And some adults!)

 

Sorry Dennis, this depends on each states laws, in VT, if you leave a mark, a red mark not bruise you broke the law. Child is removed from home for investigation. Teenage brother removed at 14 because mom washed his mouth out with soap, he called her b word.

 

I grew up in a Foster Home and I have seen some horrific things...my adopted brother had 2 broken legs at age 2 months because he cried a lot according to his birth Mom...apparently breaking his legs was going to help. My oldest adopted sister had parents that told the hospital she was "challenged" because at age 15 months she could not walk, yet when the nurse went to change the crib sheets, my sister RAN down the hallway. As a parent I could not wait for my children to walk, and yet these parental scum did not even know their daughter could walk, let alone run. Then where was another adopted sister (I have 6 adopted siblings) that actually was neglected by her parents so much, she bonded with the lights of the room. Today, when her mind wonders, it goes to the lights in a room because for months she was left in her crib alone.

The point of all this is, I know about child abuse...more then I want too. Sadly I have left out the revolting, nauseating stuff that is too sick to read.

Most of the time abuse happens because of a lack of consistency. Kids come in late lets say, but for 9 out of 10 times their is threats but no consequence, but on that 10th time, the parent completely loses it and abuse happens. For us good parents, the best thing we can do is be consistent, and I believe a swat on the backside is warranted at times. Not abuse, but correction, because a no is backed up with action.

Sadly physical abuse is not why kids are being put in foster care today, 9 out of 10 kids are pulled from a home for sex abuse...and it is everywhere, homes you would NEVER think it happened. At the same time kids are going into foster care at unprecedented levels because they are orphaned from the Heroine Addiction that in Maine alone is killing one person per day!

But the real tragedy though, is the lack of a criminal justice system that adequately punishes true child abusers. A few years ago a parent took a screwdriver to an area of a 2 year old child...someone who will never have children because of his sickness, and yet got 2 years with all but 2 months suspended. Come on judge...2 months in jail...the judge should get 2 years for being so lenient. I wonder what the sentence would be if it was his Granddaughter who had the screwdriver put to her.

 

I spanked my son once and he still remembers it, and I still regret it.