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10-31-2008, 09:16 AM | #41 |
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My Dad would have beat me half to death if I made a scene like that.
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10-31-2008, 09:41 AM | #42 |
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I'm to the point where I'm actually surprised when I see a parent discipline their children or tell them what they're doing is wrong. Sometime in the 1990s, parents were discouraged from exacting any kind of authority over their kids. Instead, they started trying to be their friend. That will never work. As a result, we have a whole generation of people who've never been told "no." They've gotten everything they've ever wanted and their feelings have always been guarded. The problem is, the real world doesn't work that way. Your boss WILL tell you what to do and he/she won't care if it upsets you.
My favorite brand of bad parenting is counting. I saw a mother in a Target parking lot trying to get their kid to get out of the car. The kid wouldn't budge so the mother threatened to count to 5. She then counted to 2...about 3 times. She was never going to get to 5 and the kid knew it. And even if she did, the kid knew there would be no consequences. |
10-31-2008, 10:03 AM | #43 |
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And he did get away with it. Great parenting.
I was at Wal-Mart once with my (now ex) step-kids and my nephew. My step-kids knew better then to throw a fit in the middle of a store but not the nephew (who is spoiled). He wanted something, I couldn't afford anything, and he started flipping in the store. I let him flip and ignored him. Told him that if he keeps acting like that, he'd never get anything from me and would never come to the store with me again. Needless to say, he didn't get anything.
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10-31-2008, 10:03 AM | #44 |
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I'm sure we've all seen this happen. When I take my kids to a toy store or go to the toy section in Wal-Mart or Target my kids NEVER ask for anything. They know it won't do any good. I like for them to express what toys they like that way they're not asking for it right out but I know they would like it.
As for punishing your children, it has become ridiculous. We hardly ever spank them, not because we don't want to but because you never know. Around here if your child so much as cries there's always someone who can't wait to call Child Protective Services. Everyone is so concerned about other children's safety when they don't have the slightest idea what it's like to have kids. I think it's a sad world when you can't punish your children how you see fit (beating a kid half to death is not the same as a couple whacks on the ass with a belt). Even the govt. is telling us how to discipline our own children. |
10-31-2008, 10:14 AM | #45 |
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Yeah....what happened to a good old fashioned spanking?
Seriously! Parents need to give their kids a good beating these days. There are certain members in my family who decided to follow that stupid idea that spanking is absolutely terrible, and should never be used on their kids. That particular child in my family was such a little shit, that I was going to give him a beating if his Mom and Dad didn't. I never did, and neither did his parents. Now he has grown up to be quite the world class looser douche bag. My Brothers, sister, and I all got spanked when we were little, and it worked like a charm. We learned our lesson, and our place. Now don't take my term of beating as Child abuse, take it as a spanking for correcting bad behavior. Bottom line, it works for the kids who deserve it. |
10-31-2008, 10:17 AM | #46 |
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LOL I have seen it and wanted to pop them for the parents since they can't do it anymore. If I acted like that no doubt I would have gotten it from my dad who was like Indiana Jones with a belt and my mom would hit me with whatever was close.
My brothers and I never really acted up cause if getting spanked didn't do the trick working outside all weekend cutting fire wood, grass, raking pine needles, weeding gardens, etc. was enough to keep us in line. |
10-31-2008, 10:17 AM | #47 |
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I've seen that a lot actually. I used to work at a place that had a play area to keep kids busy while parents shop, and 8 times out of 10 they would have to drag the kids kicking and screaming. No discipline. I would do a double spit take whenever a parent said "Let's go" and the kid put down the toys and said "Ok." and walked out calmly. I wanted to go shake his/her hand!
My theory is that all these spoiled brats grow up to be the idiots in our life. The guy/girl that bangs their door on your car and doesn't appologize for the deep dent in your property they put there. The person that cuts you off in traffic and makes you slam the brakes and get hit from behind while they go off to their very important something. They make mistakes and never accept the responsiblity or the blame, instead hoisting it on anyone or anything but themselves. The kind of person that doesn't pay their taxes, takes things out of your shopping basket, gets promotions without merit, spits on the floor at a funeral, and generally ends up being a waste of a person. If we want a better country we have to start with a better population, people with some sort of manners, respect and understanding that the world does not revolve around them and only them. People seem to have lost the understanding that freedom means respect for other people's freedom too - it's not the United States of Assholes, but it's starting to look like it. It all starts from childhood. Good parents can create good people, which in turn makes a good society.
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10-31-2008, 10:19 AM | #48 |
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I actually threatened to spank my step-son in a Wal-Mart before. Another parent was there and turned to me and says "I won't notice".
Seriously, what's it come to where you have to be afraid of what others will do when it comes to disciplining your own children?
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10-31-2008, 10:25 AM | #49 |
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exactly, the new thing is that it's ok for people to give you crap for spanking a child, or being strict, but if you say anything to a parent that is letting their kid run wild then you are wrong for intruding on their privacy.
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10-31-2008, 10:36 AM | #50 |
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I've seen instances where the parent gave an inappropriate spanking right in the middle of the store with everyone watching in disgust.
This Mother was with her daughter who couldn't have been more then three or four years old. The daughter was crying and walking next to her Mom, and that's all. After a few minutes the Mom turned around to the girl and Yells out loud. SHUT UP!! SHUT YOUR MOUTH!! That got everyone in the store's attention real fast, cuz she yelled it with rage. Then about ten seconds later she yells YOU BETTER SHUT UP OR I'M GONNA BEAT YOUR ASS!! I'm not kidding she actually yelled "I'M GONNA BEAT YOUR ASS!" Okay it gets worse.... Then about a minute passed, and she just out of the blue leaned down and started to repeatedly hit the little girl hard in the butt over and over again. I'm talking she didn't say anything before the beating. She just unleashed all of her frustration on the little girl without any warning. The little girl wasn't even doing anything but standing next to the Mom crying looking in the other direction, when she just got sucker punched in the Ass without any final warning. I swear I wanted to fucking shoot that Mom! What a terrible parent. The only reason she beat the shit out of the liittle girl was because she was crying. Oh it was Bad! Everyone in the store was talking about it after words. The freakin cashier said something to me about it. Last edited by Ronnie Dobbs; 10-31-2008 at 01:52 PM.. |
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