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Living dayligthts?
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Ok, who had the living daylights beat out of them as a kid? Not suggesting that this is the best form of parenting but still remember it!
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I think any parent that beats the daylights out of their children are not fit parents and should be locked up for cruelty and child abuse.
I would always prefer a clip around the ear by my Father when I stepped out of line than a long lecture by my Mother, because when my Mother lectured me I felt so guilty when it was explained to me, the consequences of my actions that I didn't forget it for a long time.
I have brought up my children, all very well behaved and rarely ever got into trouble, they are now adults and I am proud to say I never hit them once.
I feel that hitting children is done through frustration anger and lack of an understanding of how to deal with children in a civilised manner.
I would always prefer a clip around the ear by my Father when I stepped out of line than a long lecture by my Mother, because when my Mother lectured me I felt so guilty when it was explained to me, the consequences of my actions that I didn't forget it for a long time.
I have brought up my children, all very well behaved and rarely ever got into trouble, they are now adults and I am proud to say I never hit them once.
I feel that hitting children is done through frustration anger and lack of an understanding of how to deal with children in a civilised manner.
ratter15, thats my point, I know as a child that in this current day it would have been child abuse, not knocking my mum - there was obviously other issues going on. My best friend from way back, since I was four, her dad used to beat her with a blackthorn stick, can still remember the dents in her legs!!! But at the time this didn't seem strange to me. Also remember hand marks on my legs from when I was shacked, again this did not seem unusual.
Rratter15, its the old adage 'it didn't do me any harm' that makes it acceptable, the fact that I am asking about it means that, in some respects, it did do me harm!!!! However am not a mass murderder and think this is what people think sometimes, ie - if our parents had not have hit us we would all be locked up now!
Im with 4getmenot. I was smacked as a kid but i cant remember it. There are shades of grey for everything and smacking is one. A parent like mine is a far cry from a parent who beats their child, smacks repeatedly, uses instruments to smack or hits a child around the head etc etc. Its like saying that a parent who takes a child off school for one day during term time is the same as a parent who is sentanced to a prison term for allowing a child to truant for 3 years.
You parent was nothing like mine by the sound of it warpig, and thats why i say 'it didnt do me any harm'
You parent was nothing like mine by the sound of it warpig, and thats why i say 'it didnt do me any harm'
I was systematically beaten, kicked, burned and cut by my father pretty much every day from the age of 3 or 4 until he was killed when I was seven. I know from treatment that I've recieved as an adult that he broke my arm, my fingers, ribs and one two seperate occasions fractured my skull. The resulting brain injury has led me to have memory issues, slight tremors and ahead and above all anger management and violence issues. It's only in the last 10 years that I discovered that when the particular area of brain that is damaged in me is damaged you get aggressive, unpredictable and violent. Since I went to prison for GBH, it does rather make me wonder whether or not I would have been the way I was angerwise had I not recieved those injuries and it would have meant had I been aware that I may have sought help with that earlier instead of just assuming to myself that I was just angry because of the way my father used to treat me.
I have NEVER hit any of my children, nor even raised my voice to them, it's completely unnecessary. Very young kids can be reasoned with and all of my kids are happy, freethinking polite individuals who haven't or wouldn't be a social nuisance, so why hit when you don't have to?All you do is normalise violence and create aggressive kids. You are demonstrating how to be aggressive. It's like a masterclass and it should not be acceptable in any way in any civilised society.
I have NEVER hit any of my children, nor even raised my voice to them, it's completely unnecessary. Very young kids can be reasoned with and all of my kids are happy, freethinking polite individuals who haven't or wouldn't be a social nuisance, so why hit when you don't have to?All you do is normalise violence and create aggressive kids. You are demonstrating how to be aggressive. It's like a masterclass and it should not be acceptable in any way in any civilised society.
yer I was hit as a child but no severe beatings and dont know many friends that were beaten either in my age range so I dont understand why is that cr@p. When I really played up I would get a hard slap on my bum that would leave a big red hand print. But never punched or beatings that would leave a mark. And I would do this to my children too as a shock tactic.
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