Paris is still a big thing at the moment, but I’ve talked
about that twice now so I’m going to leave it for a while.
Instead, I’m going to open up the argument of spanking kids.
I’m in favour of it. There is a clear difference between
spanking a child and hitting/beating a child.
I was spanked twice as a child. The first time was because I
ran across the road without looking, and the second time was because I wandered
off with a friend without telling my parents where I was going. In both cases I
learnt a lesson. In the first case, I learnt to look before crossing the road
because next time it might not be a hand that hits me. The second case taught
me that being slapped on my ass might not be the worst thing to happen to me if
I didn’t tell my parents where I going when I left the house again. In both
cases, they were open handed and hand only. No wooden spoons and/or belts were
used. They were hard enough to make me feel it, but not so hard as to leave a
mark or an imprint. That is a spank. However, using a wooden spoon, a belt,
your fist or anything other than an open hand with extreme force (i.e. the force
of it draws blood or leaves an imprint), that is hitting/beating a child.
The fact is that children need to learn that their actions
have consequences and parents need to be able to discipline their children, as
long as it is reasonable, without fear of being charged. Parents these days
either believe that talking to their child is the best way to get a message
across, and in some cases that is probably right. You’re not going to spank
your child for stealing a chocolate bar or something like that, but if they do
very dangerous to either themselves or someone else then you would at least
consider it. If they don’t believe that talking is the way to go, then the only
thing they can do is nothing because the law now makes any form of punishment
illegal and punishable by a heavy fine, or even jail.
This is causing the younger generation to have a lack of
respect for older generations. Look at your Grandparents. I can guarantee that
they were spanked at least once when they were kids and look at the level of
respect they showed their elders. They didn’t fear their parents. They
respected them and those older than themselves because that is what they were
taught. Today, respect is a foreign concept to kids. That’s why you see kids,
around the age of 12, walk down the street, walk into a 30-40 year old person
and yell at them “YOU WANNA FUCKING GO CUNT?! I’LL SMASH YOUR FUCKING FACE IN
YOU UGLY DOG!”. That’s why prisons are currently overflowing with people aged 18-25,
because they didn’t learn respect. They didn’t learn that their actions have
consequences.
The common argument from those who oppose spanking is that “it
teaches obedience through fear”. My response to that is, “So?”. If children to
fear their parents to behave, is that a bad thing? It’s certainly better than
what we have now which is a world where parents fear their children. Not fear
for the lives of their children, but fear their children.
“You should sit your child down and explain to them why what
they did is wrong”. Children don’t think the way we do. Children live in a
world where Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are real. They’re not going to
understand the how and why you shouldn’t do things, even if they did pay
attention to you. Some will, of course, there are vary intelligence kids. But those
are a minority among children. The majority of children run around eating grass
and glue. So if they need fear to behave, so be it.
Anyway, that’s all I’m going to say. One last thing I will
tell you is that when I have kids of my own, no law is going to stop me from
disciplining them in any way that I feel is required. If that’s a sit down,
then that’s what it will be. If that’s a spanking, then it’ll be a spanking. Anyway,
that’s it for this topic. Leave comments either below or on the Facebook page
if you want to, I don’t really care but that is sort of the point of why I do
this, to spark conversations.
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