CA legislator proposes ban on spanking children

It's not the age, it's the mileage

 

Yes, me. And it worked.

 

At Thanksgiving, my dad was asking my 3 year old little cousin what she wanted for Chanukah. She didn't really answer, so my father started suggesting things. He said, "Do you want a doll?" "Do you want a puzzle?" "Do you want books?" My dad decided to mix it up, so he said, with a smile, "Do you want a spanking?" All of a sudden, she got this huge smile on her face, said "Yes!" and ran over to my dad and gave him a hug. Turns out she didn't know what a spanking was. She thought it sounded like something good.

 

Me too. And it really screwed me up in the head.

And that's all I'm contributing to this thread.

 

And all this time I thought it was just a myth.

For her spankings, my mom used a wooden cooking spoon, which I always thought was sort of the Derringer pistol of child discipline -- it's unconvential, yet lightweight, easy to carry and very effective in a tight spot.

 

I can remember very vividly about three real spankings (no belts, or nothing like that). Just three good, ol'-fashioned, open-hand spankings. It leads me to believe that those were the only three I ever got.

The threat was enough.

(I don't like this law. If lawmakers don't have enough to do -- and obviously they don't, because they're wasting their time with shit like this -- then go find some other job.)

 

There is no threat anymore. That's why we're a society of whiny, self-absorbed brats. Everyone gets a fuckin' time out. Or they're X-Box time is limited to only an hour a day. Or they're not allowed to watch TV between 8 and 9 p.m.

Family that lived next to me when I was a teenager was one of these new age "we aren't going to hit our childen" parents. Well, they raised two kids and one and a half of them turned out to be brats (one eventually grew out of it). And the oldest one is hooked on drugs and, according to a buddy of mine who's a police officer in town now, "posesses every anti-social personality characteristic of serial killer."

Good job!

 

Damned right. I threw a rock through the neighbor's window once. Once.

And, by the way, there won't be a ban on spanking in my house.

 

And all that can be directly related to not spanking them?

That's pretty funny.

 

What mindset?

That if you don't spank your kids they'll turn into brats, drug addicts and serial killers?