Family Forum / Parenting / Spanking / May 2005

Why do you ask questions instead of finding out the truth for yourself?
Your arguments, assuming you are honest, would be gone, or you'd have
better material to create your hate driven fantasies of brutality to
children with.

Here, stupid:

"Charles Wilson was charged with injury to a child after his
11-year-old stepson received injuries to his buttocks from being
disciplined with a homemade paddle. Police say Wilson fashioned the
paddle from a 2-by-6 board that measured 24 inches and weighed 2 1/2
pounds.

An officer shows one of two confiscated paddles that measures 24 inches
long and weighs 2 1/2 pounds. Detectives were contacted by CPS to
assist in the investigation. Detectives interviewed both Dara Wilson
and Charles Wilson and also recovered two paddles from the Wilson
residence.

The stepson required two visits to UTMB's ABC Clinic for treatment of
the injuries.

Dara Wilson was charged with injury to a child by omission for failing
to seek medical attention after she had knowledge of her son's
injuries.

School officials became suspicious when the child arrived for school
and had difficulty walking and sitting. The school notified Children's
Protective Services. "

Whadday yah think, "Was there any medical injury in that case?"

Well, an injured child would require that, usually. Or school personnel
could be charged, most likely...and it's the moral thing to do as well.

Our government doesn't always use punitive means of dealing with either
it's citizens or other nations...or haven't you noticed.

I don't approve of boot camp, and don't know to whom you speak and am
not going to play your passive-agressive neurosis driven game and go
look.

Boot camp has, along with all the other punitive methods of dealing
with youth, proven to be not only useless, but in fact counter
productive. Yah know what the gangbangers that graduate from the
program say, when they get back to 'da hood?" "NOW I know how to run an
organization, and I'm in shape to kick some a.s."

Probably not. Your point is nothing but empty babbling. The limit of
your mind is so obvious.

People run for five miles for FUN, if they are motivated properly.

Bootcamps don't work, and they are quite expensive in fact.

I once, in a class I gave on motivation with cops in the room, told the
class exactly what I would do to "penalize" speeders. And it would make
a nice little contribution to the economy. Keynsian style.

I would create a carborator attachment that could be set and sealed
with a tool available only to cops that would allow the cop to set the
proper speed for that area the speeder got nailed in. And that seal
would have a set date, like say for one week, or 30 days, based on the
number of times the person broke the speeding laws.

Imagine breaking the limit in a school zone, and having to drive
everywhere at 20mph for three days, or a week, or a month. Eh?

I said all this partly in jest to emphasis how natural consequences are
a powerful motivator, but some of the cops had a great laugh and
thought I would work. They'd LOVE to do it.

And that point of that being?

Are you suggesting that spanking was somehow involved, or the lack
thereof?

Or was it criminality? Do you actually know the full story? It all
started when a cop shot a dog. Now granted, I'd be tempted if a cop
shot my dog to kill the SOB, but reason would prevail. So far as I am
concerned, a dog's life is not the same as a humans. And I am not the
one to judge that in any case.

The dog's owner shot the cop. Figure it out stupid.

What are "Montessouri" [sic] "like GUILT COMPLEXES?"

Your imagination is running away with you. The truth is that eventually
the existence of such things would diminish considerably in a society
that learned to raise it's children to be self regulate and self
motivated.

You must know something about "Montessouri" [sic] that I do not. I
don't recall "guilt" being a driving motivator in that instructional
discipline.

Oh, I see....humor....ARH ARH ARH.