Family Forum / Parenting / Spanking / March 2006

A not so happy story.....
Just wanted to post a quick message for everyone, and hope that it
might prevent this from happening again with any of your kids.  I'll
try to keep it short and sweet.

       As I posted before in this group, if a school adminstrator
tried to paddle me in highschool I would beat him up. I would let him
have it and I would knock his teeth out. I would fight back and make
sure to take him down. It would be self defense. Now, when I posted

If fat white man Michael Moore wasn't so myopic, he might have written
a sequel on The OTHER Stupid White Men.  They're the ones who went
along with the rather idiotic notion that liberal white females could
save the world by not having any children.  Instead of saving the

A short time ago I posted I posted a reference to a new study called
"Physical Discipline and Children's adjustment:  Cultural Normativeness
as a Moderator."  Where are all the pro-spankers that claim to "know
best" and in that omniscient knowing, claim that all research

.....your friend was tired, discouraged, frustrated?
Would you offer them a cup of tea, a friendly arm around their shoulders
or a hug, maybe a blanket and pillow on your couch or the spare bedroom
to rest and recover?

According to Straus,
"I heard Diana Baumrind's paper and responded to it to several reporters
after. See the Saturday NY Times for Saturday 25 August. I said that her
study is EXCELLENT, but despite that there are clear reasons for not

I hesitate to post here for all the nasty replies I may get but here
goes. I was spanked as a child and a teenager, too. I hated it, it hurt
and embarrassed me and I tried always to behave and am a successful
student and happy, too. At no time was I ever excited by it with my

Often when discussing child discipline by parents the question comes up
on allowing the child to learn by "Natural Consequences."
The argument that comes flying back usually consist of, "Let him get
hit by a car?" "Burned by the pot of scalding water on the stove?" etc.

....your mother wanted to go shopping but you wanted to go to the movies?
Would you work out a compromise, even if it took your time and trouble
to do so?
Or would you yank her by the arm and make her go with you, and if she

.....doan't is now totally refusing to discuss the report out of the
Embry experiment in applying the "Safe Play" program.
Nothing but taunts, and dodges and subject changing.
Is it not obvious what his actual agenda is?

... Others do not.
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For the past 30 years, researchers at the University of New Hampshire's