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Well Ill tell you a little story and I want to hear what you think of this.
Myself and Ann (my fiance) decided we would take a little day trip to Portrush on the train on Sunday. We had a great day until we arrived back at the train station to go home. There was a mother and her 4-5 year old son on the platform. The kid was a little terror running around and kicking everything and stuff. He jumped down onto the train track and was running around on that too and his mother was just watching him.
The "Big Fat Controller" came over and demanded that the mother control her child as he will be injured if he does not get off the track. She started screaming at the child "John, get the F*CK off that train track." The kid just looked at her and ran off up the track. By this stage the barriers started to come down on the road beside the train station which meant that the train was coming. The Big fat controller then jumped down onto the tracks and ran over and grabbed the kid and lifted him up onto the platform and he climbed back up too. Within 30 seconds the train came speeding into the station.
Well the woman didnt say sorry or thanks or anything to the guy who saved her childs life. She just pulled out a cigarette and started to smoke.
The kid continued to run around until he tripped on the stairs and fell down 2 stairs and bumped his head. He started to cry, well scream! Now the mother shouted at him to shut up and stop crying. He did not cut himself put it was a bad bump on the head so the mother runs over to him raises her hand and shouts "I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT!" and slaps him really hard in the face.
Obviously the kid screams even louder and the mother starts repeatidly (typo?) slapping his backside and screaming "STOP F*CKING CRYING"
I thought this was awful and I had a full scale discussion with Ann on the train on the way home.
I do believe in slapping your kids - but only in extreme circumstances. I wouldnt slap them unless they really deserve it - like playing with fire (ok bad example LOL)
How can you possibly make a child stop crying by slapping them?
And would you slap your kids? If so - how far would u let them go before you lifted your hand?
Well Ill tell you a little story and I want to hear what you think of this.
Myself and Ann (my fiance) decided we would take a little day trip to Portrush on the train on Sunday. We had a great day until we arrived back at the train station to go home. There was a mother and her 4-5 year old son on the platform. The kid was a little terror running around and kicking everything and stuff. He jumped down onto the train track and was running around on that too and his mother was just watching him.
The "Big Fat Controller" came over and demanded that the mother control her child as he will be injured if he does not get off the track. She started screaming at the child "John, get the F*CK off that train track." The kid just looked at her and ran off up the track. By this stage the barriers started to come down on the road beside the train station which meant that the train was coming. The Big fat controller then jumped down onto the tracks and ran over and grabbed the kid and lifted him up onto the platform and he climbed back up too. Within 30 seconds the train came speeding into the station.
Well the woman didnt say sorry or thanks or anything to the guy who saved her childs life. She just pulled out a cigarette and started to smoke.
The kid continued to run around until he tripped on the stairs and fell down 2 stairs and bumped his head. He started to cry, well scream! Now the mother shouted at him to shut up and stop crying. He did not cut himself put it was a bad bump on the head so the mother runs over to him raises her hand and shouts "I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT!" and slaps him really hard in the face.
Obviously the kid screams even louder and the mother starts repeatidly (typo?) slapping his backside and screaming "STOP F*CKING CRYING"
I thought this was awful and I had a full scale discussion with Ann on the train on the way home.
I do believe in slapping your kids - but only in extreme circumstances. I wouldnt slap them unless they really deserve it - like playing with fire (ok bad example LOL)
How can you possibly make a child stop crying by slapping them?
And would you slap your kids? If so - how far would u let them go before you lifted your hand?
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i'm definetely against any form of violence against children.that poor kid was trying to get attention,as kids do.i smacked my kids once or twice, felt utterly crap and the next day i noticed my kids were angry and prone to violence themselves.smacking kids is the lazy way of dealing with a difficult situation,no brainwork involved...
i'm definetely against any form of violence against children.that poor kid was trying to get attention,as kids do.i smacked my kids once or twice, felt utterly crap and the next day i noticed my kids were angry and prone to violence themselves.smacking kids is the lazy way of dealing with a difficult situation,no brainwork involved...
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Well put despite the lack of capitolization woodnymph.
I gotta disagree cole (perhaps the only person on here that I feel comfortable disagreeing with by name)
I think there are other, more effective ways to control children. I obviously learned not to touch a hot pan, not to stick my fingers in the electrical outlets, not to step in front of trains without someone having to slap me.
CLEARLY it's possible to have a child become a well adjusted adult who has been smacked as punishment. There have been millions.
CLEARLY it's possible to have a child become a well adjusted adult who has NOT been smacked as punishment. There have been millions.
So it seems to me to come down to whether or not the adult feels like smacking them or not. I simply can't believe that I, as a baby, was more likely to be burned by a hot pan or hit by a train because I was not smacked.
My mom did her job. Didn't leave me in the kitchen alone with hot frying pans. She didn't let me run on railroad tracks as a baby. If I ran towards the street, she scooped me up and carried me away. I'm sure she said 'no'. And, because she was 5 times my size when I was 3, she was able to keep me away from the street without resorting to kicking my ass.
I'll ask my mom the next time I talk to her, but I get the feeling that 'not smacking me' wasn't the hardest part of raising me, nor do I feel that she would have been more sucessful by smacking me.
Violence begets violence. At least let the kid get to school before he has to deal with it.
Well put despite the lack of capitolization woodnymph.
I gotta disagree cole (perhaps the only person on here that I feel comfortable disagreeing with by name)
I think there are other, more effective ways to control children. I obviously learned not to touch a hot pan, not to stick my fingers in the electrical outlets, not to step in front of trains without someone having to slap me.
CLEARLY it's possible to have a child become a well adjusted adult who has been smacked as punishment. There have been millions.
CLEARLY it's possible to have a child become a well adjusted adult who has NOT been smacked as punishment. There have been millions.
So it seems to me to come down to whether or not the adult feels like smacking them or not. I simply can't believe that I, as a baby, was more likely to be burned by a hot pan or hit by a train because I was not smacked.
My mom did her job. Didn't leave me in the kitchen alone with hot frying pans. She didn't let me run on railroad tracks as a baby. If I ran towards the street, she scooped me up and carried me away. I'm sure she said 'no'. And, because she was 5 times my size when I was 3, she was able to keep me away from the street without resorting to kicking my ass.
I'll ask my mom the next time I talk to her, but I get the feeling that 'not smacking me' wasn't the hardest part of raising me, nor do I feel that she would have been more sucessful by smacking me.
Violence begets violence. At least let the kid get to school before he has to deal with it.
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Yes, let's go.
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I probably would smack my kids if I had any, albeit as a last resort as mentioned previously. However, I'm concerned that my temper would at times get the better of me.
This is one of the myriad reasons I never intend on having any kids. I'd be crap at it.
I probably would smack my kids if I had any, albeit as a last resort as mentioned previously. However, I'm concerned that my temper would at times get the better of me.
This is one of the myriad reasons I never intend on having any kids. I'd be crap at it.
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Children are not stupid. Cole, you're right, they lack experience and reference points - but they are still capable of reason. You can tell them that their flesh will sizzle like bacon when it touches hot metal, and they'll get the idea real fast. Explain that we like skin and perhaps it's best not to waste it.
I don't have children, but my youngest brother is 14 years younger than me (and grew up with functionally 4 parents, the poor kid). I spoke to him like an adult from the day he was born, and he's never stopped thanking me for doing so. He listens to logic and argues back rationally. Sometimes he wins. (Example: Mom says, "You can't have that drink in the living room. Take it to the kitchen now." The boy (age 6 or 7) replies, "But you have your drink in the living room, and Martin Luther King said that all people are created equal, so I should be able to have my drink here, too." Mom gives up and the boy wins. He's so cute.)
If a healthy child is incapable of being spoken to and reasoned with, then that child has not been raised properly up until that point and there are other problems.
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I think we often mistake children for idiots
Children are not stupid. Cole, you're right, they lack experience and reference points - but they are still capable of reason. You can tell them that their flesh will sizzle like bacon when it touches hot metal, and they'll get the idea real fast. Explain that we like skin and perhaps it's best not to waste it.
I don't have children, but my youngest brother is 14 years younger than me (and grew up with functionally 4 parents, the poor kid). I spoke to him like an adult from the day he was born, and he's never stopped thanking me for doing so. He listens to logic and argues back rationally. Sometimes he wins. (Example: Mom says, "You can't have that drink in the living room. Take it to the kitchen now." The boy (age 6 or 7) replies, "But you have your drink in the living room, and Martin Luther King said that all people are created equal, so I should be able to have my drink here, too." Mom gives up and the boy wins. He's so cute.)
If a healthy child is incapable of being spoken to and reasoned with, then that child has not been raised properly up until that point and there are other problems.
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what is intresting here from what i can see(please yell at me if i am wrong) is that alot of people on this thread are women. now i wonder if that is the differece bettween some of the comments?
i am a male and grew up being very naughty and in a very different way to the way my sister and her friends did. I know from going to an all boys boarding school from the age of nine that boys will normally test every boundry to breaking in most every way possible. if we are told not to do something we normally ask why, then we move on from that and question around the reason why to see if there is another angle. in the end boys normally have to just see if they can get around it anyway.
I don't know much about girls, but i think that as a group you grow up in a slightly different way. normally more respectful to the adults and not as challenging to the world around you in such a phisical way, excepting advice more easily than us boys do. please i am being genralistic here.
what seems to be coming out is the veiw that what i did growing up will work with all children. this i know is not true. it all depends on the child and the way the child is naturaly, and this depends on both chemical and life happenings to the child.
maybe we should look at this from the point of view of not what we see or have experianced but of with the view to look at every option without predudice and see if it is needed in the case we find ourselves in.
to boldly state yes i will smack my kids or never would i hit my kids maybe a bit of a closed minded way of looking at things. maybe we wont have to ever use that threat because we find other ways! maybe nothing else will work but the use of a smack on the hand or backside after everything else has failed is the only solution!
don't discount something, don't say never because you mayfind the universe has a horrible way of making never come and bit you on the arse.
what is intresting here from what i can see(please yell at me if i am wrong) is that alot of people on this thread are women. now i wonder if that is the differece bettween some of the comments?
i am a male and grew up being very naughty and in a very different way to the way my sister and her friends did. I know from going to an all boys boarding school from the age of nine that boys will normally test every boundry to breaking in most every way possible. if we are told not to do something we normally ask why, then we move on from that and question around the reason why to see if there is another angle. in the end boys normally have to just see if they can get around it anyway.
I don't know much about girls, but i think that as a group you grow up in a slightly different way. normally more respectful to the adults and not as challenging to the world around you in such a phisical way, excepting advice more easily than us boys do. please i am being genralistic here.
what seems to be coming out is the veiw that what i did growing up will work with all children. this i know is not true. it all depends on the child and the way the child is naturaly, and this depends on both chemical and life happenings to the child.
maybe we should look at this from the point of view of not what we see or have experianced but of with the view to look at every option without predudice and see if it is needed in the case we find ourselves in.
to boldly state yes i will smack my kids or never would i hit my kids maybe a bit of a closed minded way of looking at things. maybe we wont have to ever use that threat because we find other ways! maybe nothing else will work but the use of a smack on the hand or backside after everything else has failed is the only solution!
don't discount something, don't say never because you mayfind the universe has a horrible way of making never come and bit you on the arse.
What you don't know won't hurt you? well i intend to get to know as much as possible so that i can make sure no one else has to so they carn't get hurt.
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My basic philosphy to raising kids is that everything should be done for clearly stated and easy to understand reasons, maybe not all the reasons can be revealed, but I really think if you don't want your kids to grow up to be idiots who can't think for themselves you need to explain things. Obviously kids don't have the same emotional copeing skills adults do so you need to be careful.
Basicly if you discipline your kids out of emotion your just teaching your kids to be dumb emotional thinkers (don't get me wrong, emotional thinking has it's place, but if it dominates your style of reasoning then your going to get in trouble)
Also in this situation, my mom would have taught me how to watch for trains, when it isn't safe to play on train tracks (like if it's an area where trains move fast and there is poor visibility and she would have supervised me playing on the train tracks. Instead of haphazardly not careing.
I think the main problem with people raising kids is how they completly close their mind to any ideas that are foreign to what they have been taught.
My basic philosphy to raising kids is that everything should be done for clearly stated and easy to understand reasons, maybe not all the reasons can be revealed, but I really think if you don't want your kids to grow up to be idiots who can't think for themselves you need to explain things. Obviously kids don't have the same emotional copeing skills adults do so you need to be careful.
Basicly if you discipline your kids out of emotion your just teaching your kids to be dumb emotional thinkers (don't get me wrong, emotional thinking has it's place, but if it dominates your style of reasoning then your going to get in trouble)
Also in this situation, my mom would have taught me how to watch for trains, when it isn't safe to play on train tracks (like if it's an area where trains move fast and there is poor visibility and she would have supervised me playing on the train tracks. Instead of haphazardly not careing.
I think the main problem with people raising kids is how they completly close their mind to any ideas that are foreign to what they have been taught.
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and as far as the boy girl thing I don't believe in it. By even talking about it your makeing it happen. The only diffrence between men and women are some minor physical diffrences mostly related to reproduction. Sure, there is some sketchy evidence about brain diffrences but putting to much emphasis on the brain dictating behaviour is a freaking joke. People grow up depending on how they are taught. By their parents and by their community. Even if they have a mental illness or something out of the ordinary, they can easily deal with it if they have a good upbringing. Also it's never to late to compensate for faults in your upbringing, I definatly had some ****ed up shit happen in my upbringing but it doesn't control who I am. Also, I think there really is very few true idiots. Just people who somehow get labled as idiots because society is stupid, and inorder to be accepted they continue to be idiots because it's the only thing that they know works. It's funny how when you treat people who are supposedly unable to learn as people how fast they actually do learn.
Also, I definatly have hope for the future. People like Dr. Phill blasting common sense psychology over the air waves has to have a positive impact.
and as far as the boy girl thing I don't believe in it. By even talking about it your makeing it happen. The only diffrence between men and women are some minor physical diffrences mostly related to reproduction. Sure, there is some sketchy evidence about brain diffrences but putting to much emphasis on the brain dictating behaviour is a freaking joke. People grow up depending on how they are taught. By their parents and by their community. Even if they have a mental illness or something out of the ordinary, they can easily deal with it if they have a good upbringing. Also it's never to late to compensate for faults in your upbringing, I definatly had some ****ed up shit happen in my upbringing but it doesn't control who I am. Also, I think there really is very few true idiots. Just people who somehow get labled as idiots because society is stupid, and inorder to be accepted they continue to be idiots because it's the only thing that they know works. It's funny how when you treat people who are supposedly unable to learn as people how fast they actually do learn.
Also, I definatly have hope for the future. People like Dr. Phill blasting common sense psychology over the air waves has to have a positive impact.
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the woman made the kid behave like that in the first place by slapping him like that on previous occasions.
parents slap their kids when they don't know any better, or are frustrated (the parents, that is, not the kids).
the woman made the kid behave like that in the first place by slapping him like that on previous occasions.
parents slap their kids when they don't know any better, or are frustrated (the parents, that is, not the kids).
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My 9 year old will say "Mum just smack me and quit with the lecture".
My smacking is a loss of my control more than an an effective disipline method, which is not a good rolemodel. He gets busted for hitting kids at school when they pay out, but his Mum can belt him without any recourse. Hypocritical world.
He gave me a lecture on respect and child rights the other night that was an eyeopener. Interesting and often very articulate child who can drive me to the edges of sanity.
My 9 year old will say "Mum just smack me and quit with the lecture".
My smacking is a loss of my control more than an an effective disipline method, which is not a good rolemodel. He gets busted for hitting kids at school when they pay out, but his Mum can belt him without any recourse. Hypocritical world.
He gave me a lecture on respect and child rights the other night that was an eyeopener. Interesting and often very articulate child who can drive me to the edges of sanity.
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i have to admit i'm shocked at the number of people in this thread who say that they would spank their children. I think that everyone, of course, has a right to bring their children up as they wish, and i agree that the odd smack isn't going to scar someone for life, but i just am of the opinion that you should NEVER hit anyone ever.
By hitting someone surely you are giving the message that either you think they are too stupid to reason with, not worth reasoning with or that hitting people is a general ok thing to do.
I was never ever hit, shouted at or anything as a child and i turned out ok - it's just not a neccessary thing. By not hitting your kids you are showing them that you love them, just not the things they are doing. They need to learn WHY it is wrong in order to stop, not just associate it with pain.
Also, most questions of right and wrong aren't black and white either - in some cases it is right to walk on a train track, like in an emergency - you can't just go around hitting everyone who walks on the track, but if you don't how's your kid going to feel that you hit them for it but not someone else?
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i have to admit i'm shocked at the number of people in this thread who say that they would spank their children. I think that everyone, of course, has a right to bring their children up as they wish, and i agree that the odd smack isn't going to scar someone for life, but i just am of the opinion that you should NEVER hit anyone ever.
By hitting someone surely you are giving the message that either you think they are too stupid to reason with, not worth reasoning with or that hitting people is a general ok thing to do.
I was never ever hit, shouted at or anything as a child and i turned out ok - it's just not a neccessary thing. By not hitting your kids you are showing them that you love them, just not the things they are doing. They need to learn WHY it is wrong in order to stop, not just associate it with pain.
Also, most questions of right and wrong aren't black and white either - in some cases it is right to walk on a train track, like in an emergency - you can't just go around hitting everyone who walks on the track, but if you don't how's your kid going to feel that you hit them for it but not someone else?
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Thats one thing that is hard to fathom. Politeness to strangers but rudeness and violence to family.
Thats one thing that is hard to fathom. Politeness to strangers but rudeness and violence to family.
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I was spanked, and when I deserved it got a belt on the ole tush but it wasnt anything major. I deserved what I got but I never got anything more. Frankly after a while my parents didnt spank or ground me any more, they found new more torturious ways of punishing me
To me a worse punishment is embarrasment in front of your friends.
What the lady in the first post did was wrong. She still has alot to learn about parenting, not that I know everything
We must be cautious though, it is easy to look at something from the outside and say what we would do differntly. The hard part is doing the right thing when you are in the moment.
I was spanked, and when I deserved it got a belt on the ole tush but it wasnt anything major. I deserved what I got but I never got anything more. Frankly after a while my parents didnt spank or ground me any more, they found new more torturious ways of punishing me
To me a worse punishment is embarrasment in front of your friends.
What the lady in the first post did was wrong. She still has alot to learn about parenting, not that I know everything
We must be cautious though, it is easy to look at something from the outside and say what we would do differntly. The hard part is doing the right thing when you are in the moment.
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