a lot of things. evil granny`s that act very badly with their little grandchildren without reason for example. I wanted to kick the old bitch in the head when i heard her saying to the cute child she hated it. There are some evil people out there man. How the fuck can you say this to a little kid ?
You can teach respect without getting physical. In my town, including people that are my own family, children are the most disrespectful little brats I've ever seen. And most get spanked regularly. 9 times out of 10, the problem is the kid lives off a diet of sugar and grease, and the parent slaps the kid for a sugar high. Parenting is hard as shit, I know, but a lot of people have no business being parents. Those are the ones that piss me off. If you could see the parents where I live, you'd get it too. My mom spanked me once in my life, I turned out just fine and dandy. Pisses me off: Shit parents as mentioned above Customers who treat me like shit just because I have to serve them for my job. People who make an over the top mess just because they are at a hotel or resturaunt. Religious zealots My brother for now, maybe he'll get off this list next week God, so much, right now I'm in a pissy mood, so every freakin' thing on this god forsaken planet pisses me off right now.
There are so many shit parents here it's unbelievable. But hey, they are all like 20 year old chavs. I was never hit by my parents, I respect them more for it. I don't think hitting a child is ever necessary. I think less of parents that hit their children, yeah feel free to play the "you don't understand.. whine whine" card but seriously, I don't have to understand. If you really wanted to you could manage without. It's fucking possible.
my mum hit me with a hairbrush once as a kid, because i didn't want to have my hair brushed. on the bristley side to. the technique didn't ease my fear of hair brushing. but cost her dealy in guilt, and still does to this day.
lol My mum shook me whilst screaming at me because she was scared i wasn't eating. I don't count that though. Haha.. Nor do I count the numerous times she slaps me or hits me because she isn't punishing me. She's joking around.
Most kids are afraid of their parents spanking them. As a kid that was never hit, what kept me in line was the fear of disappointing my parents. If I did something wrong my mom would get this look in her face like she was so saddened by my actions. I would do whatever it took to keep that look out of her eyes. And it did better for our relationship. In highschool, when all of my friends were complaining about their parents, my mom and I were still best friends. Jaitaiyai - what did your parents do to keep you in line without hitting you?
My mom did that. She'd play that game where you see who can hit the softest. She'd say, you go first. So, I'd hit her as soft as I could. And then on her turn, she'd punch me so freakin' hard then say, you win. I never learned. But it was all in fun.
I felt like that too with my mum. i hated to upset her. she's had a hard time without me adding to it anyway. but i was just scared of dad so towed the line, tbh i still am a bit. he's never hit me once, but hes got that menacing presence.
Since we got so off topic, I started a thread just to talk about parental discipline. I thought of another thing that pisses me off. When people can't do simple tasks, but blame you like you should be holding their hands for their whole life. People would call into the pharmacy where I worked and be mad because they were out of their medicine and we can't have their rx ready yesterday.
sorry sweety, you're still just a sitteer. maybe a nanny. i had my little brother and sister in my care most of their early lives. so i was a bit cocky once, too. it was NOTHING compared to being an actual parent and you really will never have any idea until you are the parent. the sheer enormity of the responsibility, concern, maintenence night and day, day and night, year after year after year DOES in fact, make me incapable of taking criticism and advice from a childless soul who knows nothing about my children and their home life. keep out of parents' business if you know nothing of them and their children. it's simple. unless you see them harming their child, it's not your business.
I agree with you Dave, about spanking, not about fat people and all that or people with different view points. While I don't have kids, I teach parents how to parent for a living and went to school for this shit. Jess, I know you're on the internet at work, so it doesn't count. But other people, with kids who are at home ont he computer, while your kids are acting up: YOU WOULDN"T HAVE TO SPANK YOUR KIDS IF THEY WEREN'T BORED OUT OF THEIR MIND WHEN YOU'RE ON THE COMPUTER. KIDS GET IN TROUBLE WHEN THEY ARE BORED. How is your kid getting into shit in your house and spilling stuff all over? It''s certainly not because they are supervised. Who really deserves to be spanked? A bored kid or a lazy ass parent on the internet all day? I am LIVID.
and there are tons of seminars and books and counselors that can tach parents how to parent without spanking. It's sheer laziness. However, I do not have kids and people like Jess (enragedangel) who work full time and raise kiddos. I don't know how they do it, so I have no room to judge. However the people I work with who are stay at home moms, have all the time int he world to read parenting books and go to the classes I reccomend, but still hit their kids...lazy ass bastards. Your kids spilling shower gel all over the bathroom because they are bored and you're ont he internet or watching TV all day. You bet your ass I will call CPS when you have allt he time in the world and have been afforded all the free parenting help int he world.