[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by Parmy

I've never hit a child in my life, been hit many times.

My problem is I was hit for nothing more than being loud in front of my exhausted parents after a hard days work for them.

Do I feel bitter about that as an adult, yes. Yes I do. Did it make me violent as an adult to my kids. No, no it didnt, it made me the opposite, it made me look and find alternative punishments. But that's what it is though, a.punishment, and a kid feels humiliation when punished, no matter what the punishment is.



I didn't go around disrupting in school, I only got the belt once, and that was for refusing to do lines when I missed the Saturday rugby match cause I had hand marks that were now welts all down my legs.


It's a cycle.. we have reached the end of the cycle now where hard punishment changed the future adults into soft publishers, and now those school kids of theirs are the ones causing havoc in schools...Cause there's no comeback..

The, my mates a janitor at the high school and he tried to stop a kid running wild in the corridors and just got told to shut up you specky old ****. He couldn't do nothing.


Time to restart the cycle. That's all my opinion is. Cause this mollicoddling ain't working.

You literally just proved the point.

You were hit. It hurt you. You are still angry about it. And now you want to restart the cycle anyway.

You even admit you found better punishments. That already kills your own argument. If alternatives worked, the belt was never needed.

Fear kept you quiet. Quiet is not healthy. It is just kids learning to shut up and cope later. Plenty of them do not cope.

The janitor story is about schools having no backup, not about kids needing to be hit. Smacking kids would not magically fix broken systems.

Restarting the cycle is just code for repeating harm because you are frustrated.