CAMPGROUND PIGS

holstein13 wrote:

rhagfo wrote:

I find that corporal punishment never scarred me mentally or every other person in my generation that saw the use of a belt, switch (AKA Tree Branch, hand or paddle.

We sit around the Campfire and discuss the current state of parenting, which in a lot of cases doesn't seem to be working. Yes, welts were common, but it was usually one or two strikes to the Buttocks or upper thighs. Most male teaches had a "Board of Education" hanging on their desk.

It pains me to read this. When I was a kid, I suffered many beatings for no good reason other than I had violated some unknown rule that my dad may have arbitrarily imposed or sometimes he may have just been in a bad mood.

This past weekend a friend and I were comparing how our parents beat us. He told me stories about how his mother made him kneel on a bed of rice because she couldn't find any rough pavement for him to kneel on and one time she chained him to the bed for a day. But the one that almost made me cry was when she beat him so hard with a wire coat hangar. After an hour or two she realized she went overboard and decided to take him to Disney the next day. Unfortunately, the cuts were so bad that she had to use makeup to hide them on his face. As he told me the story, I realized that Dick Cheney had nothing on this woman.

I realize that you aren't advocating child abuse, but I don't think you realize the pain and suffering that some kids receive at the end of their parents reach. As a result of our upbringings, my friend and I are both raising our 5 children (combined) without violence. Neither of us use corporal punishment nor do we allow it to happen to them. I think you'd be very surprised to see how well behaved they all are.

You are correct, the is NO fine line between Corporal Punishment and Child Abuse/Beating!

The offense needed to be very bad and the punishment was quick, two strikes at most. It was the threat more than the actual punishment that kept us going in the right direction.

I had a couple of cousins that had an abusive father, and suffered badly at times. I don't recall getting the belt or switch more than about once a year.

Your examples are terrible forms of parenting, and should never be tolerated.