[user104658]

Originally Posted by jet

In the not so distant past, kids were sent to the head to have their hands painfully caned for sucking a sweetie in class. They managed not to be 'traumatised'. I shudder to think how today’s kids are going to manage as adults if they are taught that they should be protected from every negative thing that happens to them and a drama made out of it.

Advocating child abuse now, wonderful stuff.

[glib]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Advocating child abuse now, wonderful stuff.

In what sense is that ‘advocating child abuse’? I didn’t see you moaning about Alf’s post

[user104658]

Originally Posted by glib

In what sense is that ‘advocating child abuse’? I didn’t see you moaning about Alf’s post

Suggesting that kids will be unprepared for the world if they aren't physically assaulted by their teachers as children.

[glib]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Suggesting that kids will be unprepared for the world if they aren't physically assaulted by their teachers as children.

Since when is telling someone to eat a flipping cheese sandwich ‘physical assault’???

[user104658]

Originally Posted by glib

Since when is telling someone to eat a flipping cheese sandwich ‘physical assault’???

He was talking about kids getting caned. Reading comprehension C-

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

He was talking about kids getting caned. Reading comprehension C-

[jet]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

He was talking about kids getting caned. Reading comprehension C-

To help with your reading comprehension, I did mean negative things happening nowadays like a dinner lady making a child eat a sandwich which was covered up from a bin that just contained discarded paper bags - not physical assault, like in the PAST. Being made to eat a cheese sandwich once is not something that I would class as traumatic enough to have your child change schools and have them being in the news. Totally OTT.

A word with the head teacher who could have chastised the dinner lady would have been appropriate, and then quietly reassuring your child that it wouldn’t happen again.
What happens the next time the child has a bad experience? If a parent teaches a child that is the way to react to unfair things, like REAL LIFE, really; what happens when the kid starts work and gets a bollocking by an unreasonable/nasty boss? A nervous breakdown? The News at 10?

[jet]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Suggesting that kids will be unprepared for the world if they aren't physically assaulted by their teachers as children.

I love how, when it comes to me, your mind goes all twisted to find a negative angle. Should I be flattered?

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Suggesting that kids will be unprepared for the world if they aren't physically assaulted by their teachers as children.

That wasn't what was inferred at all

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Cherie

That wasn't what was inferred at all

Maybe not for you, but inferences are in the eye of the beholder. However, it might not have been what was implied