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RE: Spare the rod, spoil the child
July 18, 2014 at 2:15 pm
Spanking is a horrifyingly barbaric Bronze Age relic. If people who are spanked become decent people it's despite NOT because of spanking. I remember how I was on a field trip with my classmates that allowed us to participate in an 18th century colonial one room schoolhouse, and the "teacher" ended up ordering us to line up and close our eyes and hold out our hands so that we could be swatted with a ruler. You will never know how relieved I was when the exercise came to an end and the promised punishment didn't happen.
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RE: Spare the rod, spoil the child
July 18, 2014 at 2:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2014 at 2:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
An interesting aside...there's a simple reason that violence doesn't work on my eldest daughter as a form of behavior modification.....I taught her how to put a mean armbar on anybody dumb enough to stick their mitts out (really drilled it in, till it was a reaction). Ah, the calls from the kindergarten teacher were priceless....
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RE: Spare the rod, spoil the child
July 18, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Quick poll: who here are parents?
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RE: Spare the rod, spoil the child
July 18, 2014 at 3:43 pm
Me. Three, ages 16, 14 and 12.
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RE: Spare the rod, spoil the child
July 18, 2014 at 3:45 pm
Children: 27 and 24. Grandchildren: 4 and 5mo.
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RE: Spare the rod, spoil the child
July 18, 2014 at 3:47 pm
Me. Three daughters (26, 24, and 23) and one son (19).
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RE: Spare the rod, spoil the child
July 18, 2014 at 3:50 pm
I feel really young when I see people here have children older than me
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RE: Spare the rod, spoil the child
July 18, 2014 at 3:52 pm
(July 18, 2014 at 3:50 pm)Blackout Wrote: I feel really young when I see people here have children older than me
Enjoy it while you can. Before you know it, you'll be looking at yourself in the mirror and muttering, "What the fuck happened?"
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RE: Spare the rod, spoil the child
July 18, 2014 at 3:53 pm
(July 18, 2014 at 3:52 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: (July 18, 2014 at 3:50 pm)Blackout Wrote: I feel really young when I see people here have children older than me
Enjoy it while you can. Before you know it, you'll be looking at yourself in the mirror and muttering, "What the fuck happened?"
Yeah my father in law keeps telling me that, and the popular phrase 'getting old sucks'
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RE: Spare the rod, spoil the child
July 18, 2014 at 3:54 pm
I'm okay with getting older. Just wish I could slow things down a bit.
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