Did your parents ever hit you as punishment?

You are not a college professor, because if you were you would know that being a college professor has no bearing on the validity of your opinion on this. You would have sited some research.Troll

Johnny Red Cheeks wrote:

What the heck wrote:

OK, so you have proven that college professors can be really, really dumb. But we already knew that.

And we have one more who would have benefited by having his ass tanned.

The Judge wrote:

Anyone who hits another person, weaker than themselves, is a coward. Parents are no exceptions.

Being as weak as you sound, I'm assuming you're a homosexual.

be good to children wrote:

Anytime anyone hits a child on the butt, and it gives some pain to that child, it DOES do damage to the tissues, and could easily do permanent damage.

You wouldn't walk up and try to spank a 300 pound football player who wasn't doing what you wanted him to do. And he wouldn't respond favorably if you did.

So don't try to take it out on a child.

You also wouldn't tell a 300 pound football player to go stand in the corner because he had been a bad boy.

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be good to children wrote:

Anytime anyone hits a child on the butt, and it gives some pain to that child, it DOES do damage to the tissues, and could easily do permanent damage.

You wouldn't walk up and try to spank a 300 pound football player who wasn't doing what you wanted him to do. And he wouldn't respond favorably if you did.

So don't try to take it out on a child.

But football players hit each other on the ass all the time - especially after touchdowns!

BTW, no tissue damage here....

First off, I am sorry this happened to you.

There is a difference between "discipline" versus "abuse". In your case, it was abuse. Like others, it's one thing if you got swatted on the bottom out of a lesson versus getting it beat out of anger.

The first time I got my lesson was in the orphanage....if someone got in trouble then we ALL got in trouble by getting hit with a stick to our hands and feet. It stung but it did not harm me.

It wasn't until I was adopted at the age of 6 and half years and I lived with my new parents when my mother (after getting mad at me for stepping on her foot) that she decided to grab hold of my shirt collar and throw me against the wall until my head hit it and my nose bled that I knew something wasn't right or for the first time I "feared" for my life...many more incidents followed after that...

Yeah, say what you want about being "lucky that you were adopted or what not" but growing up, I had wished at times I still lived in the orphanage and so what if I ONLY lived a certain time, it was better than what I had gone through physically and emotionally.

To this day, I feel fortunate that I got through what I did and I admit, it wasn't ALWAYS bad compared to others. I can't explain the past but I can rewrite and better myself for the future and I have...

I have two kids of my own today and I treat them TOTALLY the opposite the way I was treated back then...I don't fault my past, I just learn and treat it differently.

Yeah, since Dr. Spock said don't spank your children, ever, we've really seen children in America be much more disciplined and kind and nice. Not, we have a bunch of wusses on one hand, and a bunch of wild rebellious smart-alecs on the other hand. People getting their feelings hurt over being called names at school. And most thinking everybody owes them something.

If you do something wrong, take your licks and be done with it.

If you are a parent, discipline your children with love and rod. Don't hit your children with the hands or fists, that is not a spanking. Let them know what they did is wrong, and then let that be the end of it. You hug them tight, love on them, forgive and forget.

Clell Adams wrote:

Yeah, since Dr. Spock said don't spank your children, ever, we've really seen children in America be much more disciplined and kind and nice. Not, we have a bunch of wusses on one hand, and a bunch of wild rebellious smart-alecs on the other hand. People getting their feelings hurt over being called names at school. And most thinking everybody owes them something.

That is a pack of lies.

Don't you effing people talk to me about abuse. I know abuse!

Oliver

Concerned Citizen wrote:

Clell Adams wrote:

Yeah, since Dr. Spock said don't spank your children, ever, we've really seen children in America be much more disciplined and kind and nice. Not, we have a bunch of wusses on one hand, and a bunch of wild rebellious smart-alecs on the other hand. People getting their feelings hurt over being called names at school. And most thinking everybody owes them something.

That is a pack of lies.

If you think that's a lie then you are the single dumbest person to ever post here and that's saying something. Congratulations.

My father was an alcoholic. Mean f'n drunk. Used to come home hammered, looking to whale on someone. So I had to provoke him, so he wouldn't go after my mother and little brother. Interesting nights were when he wore his rings....He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, "Choose" I used to pick the wrench, because f*ck him.

Yeah, well somebody should've beat your ass more often, that's for sure!

Will E wrote:

Concerned Citizen wrote:

That is a pack of lies.

If you think that's a lie then you are the single dumbest person to ever post here and that's saying something. Congratulations.

Pretty Good Guess wrote:

The Judge wrote:

Anyone who hits another person, weaker than themselves, is a coward. Parents are no exceptions.

Being as weak as you sound, I'm assuming you're a homosexual.

OK, so you like advertising your stupidity? Go for it.

I am fairly confident that standing up for those who are weaker against those who are stronger is a stance taken by the strong, not the weak. Of course, with the level of stupidity that you have already amply demonstrated I imagine that you would have a hard time comprehending even the simplest and most obvious of truths.

Will E wrote:

Concerned Citizen wrote:

That is a pack of lies.

If you think that's a lie then you are the single dumbest person to ever post here and that's saying something. Congratulations.

I do believe that. Reasonable minds can differ. If you don't agree with that statement . . . well, that in itself doesn't make you the dumbest person to ever post on LRC, but it's certainly a bad trait.

My Dad used to use a razor strop.

The type the old barbers used to use on the straight blades. It was about 3 inches wide and 1/4 thick. He used to fold it over and whack me with it. Made a big noise when it landed. My Brother told me about how it seriously impacted him when he saw it happening.

Can't say it did the same for me, as I was on the other end and only heard it and felt it. Never saw it coming. :-)

Made me a good runner. When I thought it was coming, I'd take off at a great rate of knots. Got a medal at the Olympic trials.

Never passed it on to my Kids though. Wanted to a few times but controlled the urge. A harsh tone was enough for my SOn, and nothing stopped my Daughter.

Only in the head several times. Lets see. What was the question?

It is really very simple. If it is not OK to hit adults then it is not OK to hit kids. Indeed it is worse since they are more vulnerable and defenseless.

Surely you see adults who behave in manners that you find unacceptable. Why do you not hit them to correct their misbehavior?

For those who advocate hitting children for unacceptable behavior the only reason not to extend this course of action to adults is that there would be very serious consequences, perhaps legal, perhaps physical retaliation.

The conclusion is that some hit children (or advocate hitting children) because they can get away with it. Because they have no fear of retaliation. This is pretty much the definition of cowardice. So the poster who pointed out that this was an act of cowardice was spot on.

Here is the way it is wrote:

It is really very simple. If it is not OK to hit adults then it is not OK to hit kids. Indeed it is worse since they are more vulnerable and defenseless.

So is it okay to ground your kids or give them a "time out?" Because if you did that to an adult it would be false imprisonment, which is a tort just as much as battery.

Concerned Citizen wrote:

Here is the way it is wrote:

It is really very simple. If it is not OK to hit adults then it is not OK to hit kids. Indeed it is worse since they are more vulnerable and defenseless.

So is it okay to ground your kids or give them a "time out?" Because if you did that to an adult it would be false imprisonment, which is a tort just as much as battery.

Nice response.

But not quite nice enough.

Parents are responsible for their children and have natural authority over them. Society has a similar authority over adults in terms of limiting unacceptable behaviors. Society can indeed ground adults or give them time outs. Society cannot beat them (at least civilized societies cannot).