So you wanna act like a grown man, huh?!?!

[Rook]

I feel that discipline is essential to cultivating maturity in a child. It's hard for me to judge what a lot of parents do with their kids, considering I don't have any. Kids are like people, their all different.. and their being raised in a society much different than their parents.. it's the paradox of growing and reproducing, and why parenting is so hard in the first place. I'd like to think that if you truly take to the responsibility of raising your children, teach them early right from wrong, about the truths of the world and that their are bad people.. assholes.. and morons.. what to expect and how to deal.. to use manners.. to be respectable.. Then maybe, your child might grow up to a considerate, intelligent, and capable individual. I feel that most parents methods of teaching is "You need to listen to me and do as I say".. I think it should be "Let me show you what I know, give you a heads up on somethings, and I have confidence you can do well without my constant input.. but I'm always here if you need some advice". Sure there are moments when a parent should get involved.. but constantly looking over your child's shoulder only instills lack of confidence and defiance.

[-SpectraL]

The best way is to just kick your kid's ass all over the room when they fuck up. Keeps it simple.

[Lanny]

I saw the last reply was from spectral in the last updated list and I thought I was going to open this thread and see something at least mildly insightful. Like probably dumb but at least well thought out. I was clearly expecting too much.

[mmmmmmmQuestions]

if my dad had done this to me, I would have most likely just shaved the rest of it off later on, to spite him. That or I'd tell him that since I got the new haircut all the boys at school have been flirting with me.

[constantinople]

I saw the last reply was from spectral in the last updated list and I thought I was going to open this thread and see something at least mildly insightful. Like probably dumb but at least well thought out. I was clearly expecting too much.

All of -SpectraL's children are spiraling at the lower end of middle class, heading toward late-life poverty.

[-SpectraL]

I saw the last reply was from spectral in the last updated list and I thought I was going to open this thread and see something at least mildly insightful. Like probably dumb but at least well thought out. I was clearly expecting too much.

Corporal punishment is the solution. That's why I brought it up. Enough with the hand-holding and pampering. Pain can be a huge motivator.

[constantinople]

I saw the last reply was from spectral in the last updated list and I thought I was going to open this thread and see something at least mildly insightful. Like probably dumb but at least well thought out. I was clearly expecting too much.

Corporal punishment is the solution. That's why I brought it up. Enough with the hand-holding and pampering. Pain can be a huge motivator.

Actually, it's a pretty shitty motivator. One of the worst in fact. Read a fucking book if you want to control people repeatedly beating them is not how you do it.

[starvingniglet]

Actually, it's a pretty shitty motivator. One of the worst in fact. Read a fucking book if you want to control people repeatedly beating them is not how you do it.

beating people with a book works best of all.

[equanimity]

My psychology textbook insisted that hitting your kids is not the best way to get them to grow into well-adjusted adults.  I agree, but it was kind of funny anyway.

[starvingniglet]

My psychology textbook insisted that hitting your kids is not the best way to get them to grow into well-adjusted adults.  I agree, but it was kind of funny anyway.

What if your psychology textbook is wrong?

http://youtu.be/IwvrGHsjD7g

http://youtu.be/ZDeyTNFceqo

[Nigger Nostrils]

 
The best discipline for a niglet is throwing them in an alligator pit.

[-SpectraL]

I saw the last reply was from spectral in the last updated list and I thought I was going to open this thread and see something at least mildly insightful. Like probably dumb but at least well thought out. I was clearly expecting too much.

Corporal punishment is the solution. That's why I brought it up. Enough with the hand-holding and pampering. Pain can be a huge motivator.

Actually, it's a pretty shitty motivator. One of the worst in fact. Read a fucking book if you want to control people repeatedly beating them is not how you do it.

Not at all. Kids fear and respect a father who kicks their ass in when they do wrong. Deep down, they know it's for their own good, and the result is they eventually avoid getting their ass kicked by doing the right things instead of the wrong things. Pampering a child through education and tolerance leaves an easy way out for the kid, and in not handing out physical punishment, by being a bleeding heart liberal, you leave the kid wide open to the harsh realities of life. You have to be cruel to be kind. The kid turns out way better at the end of the road.

[Lanny]

See, you say that but all you've done is made assertions with no evidence. Like if I said "only liberals cared about human life", and someone else came along and pointed out that no, other people care too, and I just repeated my claim. That's what you're doing spectral, just repeating the same claim you started with.

[Rocklin]

When I was little and I did something wrong my father would hit me.    I turned out better then other kids and I know what's right and what's wrong because my father brought me up like his father (my grandfather) did.

I think todays youth lack respect and knowledge because the parents in their life never took the appropriate actions because for what schools and the media chooses to portray as "Proper" parenting.

[mmmmmmmQuestions]

my dad beat me with a steel chair and now I'm a piece of shit. argument diffused