montestewart wrote:DCZards wrote:popper wrote:
More than Words of wisdom from the country's newest Senator (Scott from South Carolina) - “I am thankful for a strong mom that understood that love sometimes comes at the end of a switch,” Scott said.
Violence begets violence. It's well-known that many of the men and women who are now perpetrators of child and spousal abuse were victims of abuse themselves as kids.
I hear people speak nostalgically about switches, belts, etc. What utter nonsense, glazing sadism with a folksy veneer. My parents never spared the rod, and were quite creative at it. Once I ended up in the hospital, another time I was punished for spilling a skillet on myself, then taken to the hospital for the burns I suffered. I don't see the connection between their corporal punishment and anything I am today, other than someone who was able to overcome it and forgive them because they just didn't know any better. I see parents punish their kids in public, and I always think the parent looks more out of control than the kid. I don't think most parents can be trusted to know where good parenting ends and child abuse begins.
Couldn't agree more MS
hitting (let's call it what it is) your children to me is a sign of a real lack of creative thinking.
That's the best you can come up with? Really?
FWIW, and I give >>> credit to my wife than me, I have kids that other
adults always compliment me on.
Not ashamed of the past incidents where I've called out a parent publicly
when I've seen abuse. And no, they don't like it one bit. I can only hope
that maybe, when they cool off, I've planted a seed that will allow them
to grow and change.