Father Jailed for Smacking

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
A father was jailed for 42 days on account of smacking his daughter so hard that it left bruises.

What are your opinions?

Not enough of a sentence? Too much?

Discuss.

-AC

thats horsecrap. Parents cant do shit to children anymore. Which is going to get a point across better, a time out or a belt, or wooden spoon broken over your ass? I am not saying abuse should be allowed. I was abused, dad broke my ribs and sturnem i could care less. Even i see though that tehre are to many physical restraints today. a belt is not going to kill you. kids have more rights than parents do.

He broke your ribs? What did you do? 😖

he beat me down and started slamming his foot down on me when i was bout 9.

Why?

because i was putting wood scraps in the wrong pile.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
because i was putting wood scraps in the wrong pile.

Well now you should have put the wood in the right pile..

jk.. thats horrible.

you are stupit time of evil, its not the only way to show your child whats reason and whats not, just talk and make it understand, well perhaps it was the only way to show you whats wrong and right, you must be so stupit 😂 just breaking your balls mate 😂

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
because i was putting wood scraps in the wrong pile.

THAT IS TOTAL BS, he did it because of THAT????

Originally posted by Syren
Clovah, I refuse to believe you live in a world of pink cotton candy and fluffy clouds. It's perfectly feasible to think a parent could hit their child, just as it's viable that people war on one another. Wake up and smell the violence honey 😬 It doesn't make it right, and I'm not trying to justify it at all, but it's happening and you can't hide from it by simply questioning the motives.

one of the ways of fighting unfairness (word?) is not to admit it is happening...escape into fantasion...😬 it is safer thatn living a real life.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
he beat me down and started slamming his foot down on me when i was bout 9.

You poor thing! Sweety I'm so sorry, come here! hug

I agree with Clovie, to escape reality I often retreat into day-dreams. I love to day-dream and 99% of my day is day-dreaming! 😊

I feel explaining things to them would be the best. If not then you got to swat them or time out or take away the computer, but in no way should you belittle, beat, threaten in anger or anything evil. Because little people never forget

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
thats horsecrap. Parents cant do shit to children anymore. Which is going to get a point across better, a time out or a belt, or wooden spoon broken over your ass? I am not saying abuse should be allowed. I was abused, dad broke my ribs and sturnem i could care less. Even i see though that tehre are to many physical restraints today. a belt is not going to kill you. kids have more rights than parents do.

to make it illegal for an adult to hit a child is taking away a right? I don't see that. it's illegal to hit or intimidate another person, so why shouldn't this be the case when it comes to children? that doesn't mean that kids have more rights than parents, it simply means that when it comes to violence, children should be protected by the law too.

just because you cannot reason with a child, as someone put it in a previous post, shoudn't give you the right to hit it. violence is one way of wordless communication. that doesn't mean that no other ways exist.
besides, I have trouble differing what's the difference betweeen a well decerved smacking, and down right abuse. where should the line be drawn? what should be legal and what not? when's the parent's anger legitimate?
how the beating affects the child is so very personal that it's impossible to say just how humiliating and/or painfull it was, just as it's gonna cause discussion everytime a parent's motivation for smacking little jimmy around the face is to be examined.

Bilb,

While you and most parents have an understanding of being one because of the fact that you are, you and every parent I've ever encountered seem to entertain this "You don't have kids, you can't comment on parenting" fantasy. Let me be the first to, *pops*, pop that damn bubble that you've apparantly been living in.

"I stay home with my kids and do my level best to raise them right. I do the counting thing, i do timeout, i take away toys and priveleges & i reward good behavior. But at the end of the day that stuff is generally uneffective. So I spank them when it needs to be done. I dont hurt them."

You spank them but you don't hurt them? Then what use is the spanking anyway? The purpose of spanking is to hurt the kid and as a result deterr them from doing anything else. You do hurt them by spanking them and if you claim otherwise you're either lying or spanking them with a feather duster. Spanking, by your "it doesn't hurt" rationale, is the most inaffective punishment there is because by defintion, the hurt is what makes it effective.

"It is a kids job to push the limits, and it is MY job to make sure they know there are consequences to pushing those limits. Trust me, I'll put my kids up against a shrink's kids who have only ever gotten a talking to any day of the week. And when given a choice as to who is next to you in the grocery store line, I GUARANTEE you would rather have my kids there."

This is why kids do bad at school alot of the time. They associate pushing boundaries with being bad, no matter what boundaries they are. Yes it's your job to teach them that certain things are wrong but it's also your job to be a responsible parent and by striking them I don't see how you're doing so (aka you're not).

-AC

seems kinda like hard punishment

Originally posted by BlackC@t
I agree with Clovie, to escape reality I often retreat into day-dreams. I love to day-dream and 99% of my day is day-dreaming! 😊

This obviously explains why you're such a psycho 🙄 Stabbing people? Beating on your step mom just because you refuse to let her get one over on you? Let me guess, she's not your mother, she doesn't have rights. Been there honey, realised I was being the biggest, most moronic brat ever to have existed. I suggest you see a counsellor or seven.

BlackC@t, regardless of her past, is clearly settling into and living up to the title of being the morbid one on here.

If we stop humouring her it might cease.

Having a bad past isn't a gimmick Cat.

-AC

*raises hand*

I have horrific moments in my past. But, yanno, that's generally where that stay, in the past.

Everyone has had horrific moments in their past I should imagine, even if what's horrific to one isn't horrific to the other.

I've had stuff happen that I probably will never forget until my dying day, stuff that still gives me nightmares. However, when I wake up, that's where the things end. Past is past.

-AC

✅ C'mere, you adorably messed up young man hug