(July 15, 2014 at 3:47 pm)Tonus Wrote: What I don't think she ever understood was that severe physical punishment combined with never providing rewards for good behavior simply taught us that the best possible outcome was to not get caught.A valuable life lesson, but surely there are other ways to teach that to a child eh? Maybe show em how to count cards and take em to the local basement poker game.
Quote:You cannot beat goodness into a child or wickedness out of a child.I've always wondered about that. Again, even from an abusive parents point of view, the fact that they feel they have to keep beating their child ought to have shown them that it wasn't working by now. It's a total disconnect, isn't it? Are they beating for effect or beating because they enjoy it? Questions that probably don't cross their minds very often.
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