Smacking Ban

[TheProgressiveLiberal]

I was spanked in elementary school. They happened on Friday after school. You got to sign the paddle the next Monday. I had to repeat any school punishment at home. I usually preferred a spanking to a long detention once I'd reached a certain amount of demerits in a week. Would usually try and do something extra to earn the spanking.

One time I put gum in my little sisters hair right as we were leaving for her kindergarten school talent show for all the parents. I was fairly certain my mother was going to murder me with the paddle, so I moved out of the way. She was swinging so hard that it broke on the toilet which I had been holding onto.

[TheProgressiveLiberal]

2 hours ago, JMDP said:

My parents never hit me once or my siblings.

Of those favouring smacking, do you believe schools should be able to hit kids as a form of punishment again?

Yes. So kids like you with weak parents can get toughened up.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

10 minutes ago, TheProgressiveLiberal said:

I was spanked in elementary school. They happened on Friday after school. You got to sign the paddle the next Monday. I had to repeat any school punishment at home. I usually preferred a spanking to a long detention once I'd reached a certain amount of demerits in a week. Would usually try and do something extra to earn the spanking.

One time I put gum in my little sisters hair right as we were leaving for her kindergarten school talent show for all the parents. I was fairly certain my mother was going to murder me with the paddle, so I moved out of the way. She was swinging so hard that it broke on the toilet which I had been holding onto.

No shit?

[Glenconner]

17 minutes ago, TheProgressiveLiberal said:

I was spanked in elementary school. They happened on Friday after school. You got to sign the paddle the next Monday. I had to repeat any school punishment at home. I usually preferred a spanking to a long detention once I'd reached a certain amount of demerits in a week. Would usually try and do something extra to earn the spanking.

One time I put gum in my little sisters hair right as we were leaving for her kindergarten school talent show for all the parents. I was fairly certain my mother was going to murder me with the paddle, so I moved out of the way. She was swinging so hard that it broke on the toilet which I had been holding onto.

Thought you said you went to military school........

[TheProgressiveLiberal]

Did not go to military school.

20 minutes ago, Zen Archer said:

No shit?

Mom had a pretty bad temper, but was generally a great mom.

My dad was always even keel. He would usually read us stuff from the Bible or from famous figures about the value of discipline before he spanked us.

One time my sister jumped out of a closet to try and push me down the steps to our basement. I caught myself on the door, but made a split second decision to let go and fall down the steps. I knew she'd get spanked. Listened and laughed from down the hall as it happened.

Edited October 22, 2017 by TheProgressiveLiberal

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

1 minute ago, TheProgressiveLiberal said:

Did not go to military school.

Mom had a pretty bad temper, but was generally a great mom.

My dad was always even keel. He would usually read us stuff from the Bible or from famous figures about the value of discipline before he spanked us.

One time my sister jumped out of a closet to try and push me down the steps to our basement. I caught myself on the door, but made a split second decision to let go and fall down the steps. I knew she'd get spanked. Listened and laughed from down the hall as it happened.

Did you ever finish the research project on Scots who have played abroad over the years?

[GAD]

2 hours ago, TheProgressiveLiberal said:

Did not go to military school.

Mom had a pretty bad temper, but was generally a great mom.

My dad was always even keel. He would usually read us stuff from the Bible or from famous figures about the value of discipline before he spanked us.

One time my sister jumped out of a closet to try and push me down the steps to our basement. I caught myself on the door, but made a split second decision to let go and fall down the steps. I knew she'd get spanked. Listened and laughed from down the hall as it happened.

[Dindeleux]

I can assure you a wee bit of thievery is very tame when a teenager goes off the rails and the experts are not so expert when it happens.

I don't think I knew the half of what one of my step daughters got up to, and I hope I never find out, either.

I had plenty of sleepless nights as I had a fair idea what was happening.

I think my wife had the sleepless nights, I just had to do taxi man at all hours. But at least then we knew she was home. It was far worse when she got a car of her own.

I used to love these types of girls when I was a youngster.

Good memories brought back lads, cheers*










*i have a 6 month old daughter myself though now so no doubt somewhere around the year 2033 I’ll be regretting this comment:

[Ira Gaines]

Liberal's dad is Samuel L Jackson.

[Glenconner]

6 minutes ago, Randy Giles said:

Liberal's dad is Samuel L Jackson.

Might be "Stonewall" Jackson.

[whiskychimp]

19 hours ago, Pull My Strings said:

Are you looking for a definition of assault? The change in the law - and the subject matter of this thread - is that the statutory defence of reasonable punishment is being abolished. If what you're doing isn't assault in the first place then you've nothing to worry about.

Or are you asking if smacking is assault?  It is. 

I can't give you an answer as to whether your bizarre tapping thing (three fingers, no palm, propelled by gravity etc.) would be considered an assault. From your description I suspect not but then your description sounds like bollocks.

Does that answer your question?

That answers a little bit of my question. Thanks

[Nutz_the_Squirrel]

1 hour ago, Randy Giles said:

Liberal's dad is Samuel L Jackson.

What?!

[Scary Bear]

Did not go to military school.
Mom had a pretty bad temper, but was generally a great mom.
My dad was always even keel. He would usually read us stuff from the Bible or from famous figures about the value of discipline before he spanked us.
One time my sister jumped out of a closet to try and push me down the steps to our basement. I caught myself on the door, but made a split second decision to let go and fall down the steps. I knew she'd get spanked. Listened and laughed from down the hall as it happened.

Have you been to Band Camp?

[Jacksgranda]

2 hours ago, Dindeleux said:

 

 

 

 

 

I used to love these types of girls when I was a youngster.

Good memories brought back lads, cheers*










*i have a 6 month old daughter myself though now so no doubt somewhere around the year 2033 I’ll be regretting this comment:

 

 

 

 

 

I certainly hope so. Although I won't be around to gloat.

I feel slightly sorry for her own youngsters - there's no lie they can tell, story they can concoct, excuse they can make, stroke they can pull that she won't be able to see through, having been there and done that, and act accordingly.

[ayrmad]

2 hours ago, Dindeleux said:

 

 

 

 

 

I used to love these types of girls when I was a youngster.

Good memories brought back lads, cheers*










*i have a 6 month old daughter myself though now so no doubt somewhere around the year 2033 I’ll be regretting this comment:

 

 

 

 

 

Jacksgranda will be gentle with her.

[ayrmad]

15 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:

I certainly hope so. Although I won't be around to gloat.

I feel slightly sorry for her own youngsters - there's no lie they can tell, story they can concoct, excuse they can make, stroke they can pull that she won't be able to see through, having been there and done that, and act accordingly.

It's the opposite, it worries you more because you've a fairly accurate idea of what's going on, doesn't mean you can stop it.

[Sergeant Wilson]

7 hours ago, TheProgressiveLiberal said:

I was spanked in elementary school. They happened on Friday after school. You got to sign the paddle the next Monday. I had to repeat any school punishment at home. I usually preferred a spanking to a long detention once I'd reached a certain amount of demerits in a week. Would usually try and do something extra to earn the spanking.

One time I put gum in my little sisters hair right as we were leaving for her kindergarten school talent show for all the parents. I was fairly certain my mother was going to murder me with the paddle, so I moved out of the way. She was swinging so hard that it broke on the toilet which I had been holding onto.

I'm pitching this plot to Viz. An delusional boy from a shite town in Scotland thinks he is being brought up in the USA. Follow his misadventures as he gets the shite kicked out of him on a daily basis by his more realistic, ned contemporaries. He gets his revenge by poisoning their "chinkies" or shooting them.

[whiskychimp]

34 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

I'm pitching this plot to Viz. An delusional boy from a shite town in Scotland thinks he is being brought up in the USA. Follow his misadventures as he gets the shite kicked out of him on a daily basis by his more realistic, ned contemporaries. He gets his revenge by poisoning their "chinkies" or shooting them.

That's brilliant but I'm not sure the Viz would take such an outlandish idea.

[J_Stewart]

Some thread this, TCK using his university of life degree to decry those damn 'experts', people in their 50s and 60s whose generation went in a family holiday a year and bought their house for £4.72 and three fingers of a four finger twix accusing "millennials" (a lot of whom won't own a house until their parents both die and pass it to them, and who'll likely have to work until the day they themselves die) of being entitled, and banana and swampy going baws flapping oot in the batshit mental stakes, and that's before we even get to the actual subject matter. Some thread.

We don't have kids yet, but I can't imagine a scenario where I'd ever smack a child or use any capacity of violence as a disciplinary measure. Obviously can't say for definite until you're in that situation, but I just don't see it.

[Scary Bear]

Some thread this, TCK using his university of life degree to decry those damn 'experts', people in their 50s and 60s whose generation went in a family holiday a year and bought their house for £4.72 and three fingers of a four finger twix accusing "millennials" (a lot of whom won't own a house until their parents both die and pass it to them, and who'll likely have to work until the day they themselves die) of being entitled, and banana and swampy going baws flapping oot in the batshit mental stakes, and that's before we even get to the actual subject matter. Some thread.

We don't have kids yet, but I can't imagine a scenario where I'd ever smack a child or use any capacity of violence as a disciplinary measure. Obviously can't say for definite until you're in that situation, but I just don't see it.

Here's a real life scenario. Those late lie-ins you're used to are a thing of the past. Your kids are tag-teaming you through the night to the extent you are lucky if you've had more than 2 hours unbroken sleep in a night. This goes on for 3 weeks. Changing pished sheets at 3am and/or mopping up sick at a similar fun hour. Your nerves are shredded but you get to go to work and deal with all the shite that encompasses, then go home and look after kids before facing this endurance test.

Then they won't do as you say, and you try to reason with them, then you try to be firm, then you threaten them with the naughty step, then you keep putting them back on the naughty step when they get up and wander off. Then you snap. It gets easier as they get older but the first few years of parenting are hard work. Smacking is not the answer but it happens sometimes.

Frankly, some of the punters on here seem to live in a vacuum where real life doesn't exist. They also like to pontificate to show what absolutely cracking, model citizens they are, despite the fact that many of them have zero experience of parenting. And then there are the sad sack trolls.