Jon Etheridge said:
A lot of it has to do with the fact that it's not acceptable to whip a kids ass anymore. Thanks tree huggers.
I don't get this argument, so because parents aren't allowed to spank their child anymore that means that they've all of a sudden turned to little shits? Weren't they already little devils anyway?
Guess what.
You were that little shit to. It doesn't matter if parents spank them or ignore them, they've
always been little shits. Hell, spanking may make it worse, who knows.
If your parents "disciplined" you, and then you see some other kid thinking "Pfft, that kid should be spanked, I was a good little boy!", do you know why you were "disciplined"?
Because you were that kid.
When I was a kid, I was an insane bastard. I cried, I yelled, I whined all the time, I got into fights, I cried some moar, blah de blah blah. Well guess what, I wised up and grew up. Whenever I see a little kid going crazy or whatever, I either ignore them or move away. They're little kids, what the hell do I expect them to do, argue Ghandi's philosophy with me?
Same thing with the current kids I go to school with. While they can be incredibly annoying at times, cursing everywhere, thinking they're wangstahs or something, kings/queens of the world, what the hell am I supposed to do about it? I probably "matured" earlier than most other kids, I treat my teachers with respect, etc.... Doesn't stop me from going a little crazy myself, cracking an inappropriate joke or whatever. I'm still a freakin' kid, I'm going to disobey my parents sometimes, I'm going to be annoying on occasions, I'm going to freak out
every day occasionally, I think the world's trying to smash me to bits, what the hell am I supposed to do?!? In fact I'm going crazy in this post already!
I don't consider myself "badly raised". My dad never hits me, or does any other "disciplinary" measures other than yelling at me (or at least it sounds like he is, his Israeli accent is naturally like that) and quite frankly I go crazy enough as is.
(reading back over this, I think I'm going a tad crazy right now. The entire thing wasn't fully directed at you, just a small rant I had going on)