RE: Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion
September 23, 2018 at 9:12 am
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2018 at 9:14 am by bennyboy.)
(September 23, 2018 at 8:28 am)robvalue Wrote: Sure, my projection idea is just a hypothesis. I'm not claiming to have evidence for that. But from the book as a whole, that is what I get from him.
About the spanking, I think it's debatable whether it's wrong. That's not the issue here. He is advocating going further than spanking. That is what worries me. What could he mean? He doesn't say. But I find it hard to imagine any situation where "more than spanking" is a suitable punishment, even if we allowed spanking for the sake of argument.
First of all, as a psychologist, I would assume he would know that the field is very heavily against spanking. He does qualify it, though-- extreme case, etc. etc.
I sense he's more of a philosophical psychologist (he talks about Jung all the time, or Nietzsche) than a child psychologist. I'm pro-spanking to a degree, but only if I'm the one doing it, because I'm so wise and all that. But those OTHER guys-- well, the literature is pretty clear.
I don't think he's necessarily advocating going further than spanking, at least based on the quoted material you gave. I'd interpret that as-- sometime's, nothing you can do is going to bring a kid in line. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if he talked about the benefits of really roughing a kid up. . . like, if they were really asking for it.
