(September 20, 2015 at 7:28 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm against physical punishment. I see it as a shortcut in parenting. It only teaches fear.
Grey areas are how most things operate. My mum, when I was a kid, put my hand on the ring of the cooker (after it had had time to cool a bit) so that it hurt just enough to show a toddler that it was dangerous. I'd come dangerously close to putting my hand on it when it was full on apparently. Was this abuse or teaching of the danger in the simplest way to a creature with no real reasoning skills? I go with the latter. What I think I'm saying is that interactions and events are complex and these lines in the sand are not always helpful.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
