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[–]Solitairee 466ポイント467ポイント  (109子コメント)

Tbh i deserved it and i learnt quick

[–]baraxador 87ポイント88ポイント  (107子コメント)

I hope no SJW's will come...

[–]TylerTJ930 108ポイント109ポイント  (70子コメント)

They will and they'll all have an opinion on how to raise your kids

[–]PitchforkEmporium 235ポイント236ポイント  (13子コメント)

MAM YOU CAN'T HIT YOUR KID I'LL CALL SOCIAL SERVICES

everyone in the store starts clapping

Manager runs over

"Mam you're so good with kids raise mine!"

hands kids over

"And here a $100 for being so amazing tumblrina"

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP

[–]Euphorium 78ポイント79ポイント  (11子コメント)

adopts kids, teaches them the ways of a pansexual dragonkin

[–]PitchforkEmporium 80ポイント81ポイント  (10子コメント)

SIR I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I SEXUALLY IDENTIFY AS A SLIGHTLY USED PITCHFORK

AM I BEING OPPRESSED?

AM I BEING OPPRESSED?

I MUST BLOG ABOUT THIS

*but first I have to eat these cheetos

[–]MGLLNMod 25ポイント26ポイント  (4子コメント)

SLIGHTLY USED PITCHFORK

8.0 BNM (Best New Meme)

[–]BaltimoreSkater 12ポイント13ポイント  (1子コメント)

Field Tested Pitchfork

8000 keys

Lowball = -rep

[–]jackfromearth 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

offer battle-scarred Trident | Marble Fade

[–]PitchforkEmporium 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

IS THAT A WAY OF OPPRESSING ME?

[–]SaradominSpy 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Excuse me, handlehole?

Your kin can't be opressed because you have all the privileges due to some kins using you when others kins do something wrong.

Now stop trying to be opressed and kill yourself. (◕‿◕✿)

[–]ThePantsThief 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

God damn I love you people

[–]PitchforkEmporium 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

We love you too

[–]Miles_Longer 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Your username is wonderfully relevant for these past few days. Well. Actually, pretty much every other day on the internet hahah

[–]PitchforkEmporium 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I made it to be relevant all the time

[–]arbili 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Check your blogging privilege cis scum.

[–]No0ne21 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

You could hear a pin drop.

[–]ThatAardvark 63ポイント64ポイント  (25子コメント)

There's a reason it's usually little blonde kids with young moms acting out in stores, timeouts and counting to 3 don't do shit

Stress on usually, please don't tell me about the time you saw an aboriginal paraplegic doing sick grinds on the rim of the frozen foods section in his wheelchair

[–]MGLLNMod 50ポイント51ポイント  (4子コメント)

counting to 3

Mom: Ashleighe, put that toy down right now! ASHLEIGHE I AM BEING SERIOUS! I'M GOING TO COUNT TO THREE! ONE!

Ashleighe:

Mom: TWO!!!!

Ashleighe: ...

Mom: THR-

Ashleighe: Three! :D

Mom: ASHLEIGH I AM BEING SERIOUS!!

[–]effa94 15ポイント16ポイント  (1子コメント)

Ashleighe

parents so rich they added extra letters to the name, just for show.

[–]or_some_shit 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

She is gonna be the classiest hooker you ever seen.

[–]Fappity_Fappity_Fap 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

This, so much this, it was a permanent free bailout from the counting. Until my mom outwitted my 5 yo self by fast-counting to 10.

[–]ThePantsThief 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Then her sister Maeghan starts acting up.

[–]CommanderCooper 21ポイント22ポイント  (1子コメント)

You lost me at the sick grinds.

[–]Ferrarisimo 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Right? I saw that kid grinding on his wheelchair, but he was just OK.

[–]ConsummateK 19ポイント20ポイント  (8子コメント)

It's about what the kid cares about. My parents took my consoles away. Fuck that. They didn't have to smack me (although a couple of times it happened...and I deserved it) but I would have taken that over my games every day of the week.

For some kids timeout is total hell, for those kids it's effective. For others...other methods.

[–]SmoothPrimal 24ポイント25ポイント  (2子コメント)

Some parents are just too dumb to think about creative ways to dsicipline their child beyond hitting them.

Im totally for spanking kids up to a certain point. If you are simply hittingyour kid becauseyou are irritated, you arent teaching him/her anything, but the fact that you are an idiot and you will pay for it 10 years later when your kid blooms into the full idiot you raise him to be.

[–]FernwehHermit 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Are you sure they don't just bloom into idiots because they were made by idiots? Nature vs nurture kind a thing.

[–]or_some_shit 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh shit I never though of that. Debate's over guys, /u/FernwehHermit just dropped a boulder of wisdom on our collective asses.

I'm being sarcastic, and its probably a bit of both (Nature and Nurture)

[–]CommanderCooper 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Context, motherfuckers.

[–]EltNoobl 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

My dad would either: take away the games, controller, AV cables, or power brick. Sometimes he'd just up and take the internet modem (Which I kept a dinky little spare for when he pulled this)..

I know I was a lazy little shit, but come on you never let me do things on my terms.

[–]ConsummateK 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Your terms were probably stupid. I say this as a kid whose terms were definitely stupid lol

[–]iamaneviltaco 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

If it makes you feel any better, I gotta use that punishment on my girl's kid when he starts getting out of line, and it's as much a punishment for us as it is him. Because you know what happens when you take the primary form of entertainment away from a kid who was hyper to begin with? Nothing good.

[–]Grobulox 31ポイント32ポイント  (5子コメント)

The only times I've seen kids freaking the fuck out and the parents not give a shit, the family was Latino.

[–]cjantichrist210 15ポイント16ポイント  (3子コメント)

That's only the ghetto ones. My mom was old school and pulled out the chancla when I was outta line. I would get my ass straight beat. And my siblings would hide for cover and point and laugh at my demise. Smh I never learned tho so I was beat regularly. XD I love my mom.

[–]My_Eleventh_Account 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

I've seen plenty of black kids acting like shitheads. I'm not scientist, so I didn't keep track of the white shitkid to black shitkid ratio, but it seems pretty close. I have noticed that poor kid shittiness and suburban kid shittiness are equally annoying but distinct brands of bad behavior.

[–]Konekotoujou 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Counting and timeouts certainly work. There just has to be some threat behind the counting. If you start doing the "two and a half.... two and three-quarters" shit then you've lost them. For my niece and nephew I rarely get to 2.

As for timeouts kneel in a corner with a object between their nose and the wall for 3 minutes, if you drop the object restart. Then with your other kids do some fun activity at the same time.

[–]Wallace_Grover 18ポイント19ポイント  (24子コメント)

You shouldn't abuse your kids. What a novel opinion...

EDIT: Look through some recent scientific literature on the subject. There's a pretty comfortable majority casting physical punishment in a negative light.

[–]SkuggerBentley 21ポイント22ポイント  (0子コメント)

don't bother

peeps don't like hearing the scientific mumbo jumbo if it paints their parents in a bad light. bc if disciplining your child turns out to generally have a negative impact, then that means "maybe my parents fucked up", and that's generally very hard to admit.

and for all self-proclaimed "I'm doing just fine" anecdotal shit (which is a self-fulfilling claim) there's countless other cases where

-it fucked up the kid

whether those effects are latent or patent are generally hard to discern. but bc there's so many damn cases, and scientific and psychological research proves that it does tend to be counter-intuitive and have a deleterious impact, let's just say i'm glad we're heading towards a society where shit like that is looked down upon

-this is from someone who grew up w/ a verbally and physically abusive parent...

she thought what she was doing was "right", but do we really trust fallible human beings to make that distinction in spur of the moment instances like such? nah.

bc i'm pretty sure 99% of people who physically discipline their children

-think this will benefit them in some way

even the ones taking it 2far.

bottom line, in general it fucks up the kid. doesn't matter that you "turned out alright" (like i'll trust you to make that biased assertion), there are 2many cases on the other end of the spectrum for me to see physical discipline to have any real societal benefit, and thankfully the practice is ebbing out.

EDIT: and b4 ppl act like i've lived in a sheltered suburbia all my life (like i've seen itt happen to others)

-i grew up in the ghetto (inb4 "hardcore!" fuck off i'm making a point)

i've seen first hand how ineffective corporal punishment is

-good friends who were belted/smacked/etc. by parents only grew more detached and angry, turning to drugs and gangs as an outlet bc they were scared of/angry at their parents

and when i worked as a math TA w/ juvenile delinquents

the teacher asked how many of their parent dished out corporal punishment

-all of them raised their hands

i know that's anecdotal evidence which i've already derided as invalid, but i'm just saying

-you have ur anecdotal evidence and i have mine

[–]C0812 -2ポイント-1ポイント  (21子コメント)

What in your opinion is abuse? A smack on the mouth? A belt?

Edit: You know what? I realized this is on /r/all. That's where the SJW's are coming from.

[–]Loop_Within_A_Loop 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

both are abuse. I was never hit growing up (my dad was, he went out of his way to break the cycle), and my childhood was better for it, and I turned out fine.

Justify it however you want, doesn't make beating your kids right.

[–]Spaghettihouse 7ポイント8ポイント  (2子コメント)

In a lot of countries, harming your child physically is abuse and is strictly illegal. It's more than just an "opinion" for some.

[–]C0812 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

Yeah but I live in America.

[–]revychumso 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

so it's not just sjw disagreeing with you. the world is a thing.

[–]My_Eleventh_Account 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Anything more than spanking I'd consider abuse. Sometimes kids just need to get hit. It shouldn't be your first choice though, and it shouldn't happen often.

[–]CommanderCooper 8ポイント9ポイント  (11子コメント)

From a smack in the mouth to a belt? Bit of a jump there.

[–]C0812 3ポイント4ポイント  (9子コメント)

Still part of getting hit. My mom did a bit of a jump in my ass whenever I fucked up, taught me some discipline. What's called abuse today was just part of raising a kid when I was little, especially in the south. If you acted up, you got fucked up. Simple.

[–]CommanderCooper 4ポイント5ポイント  (8子コメント)

A smack is discipline. Getting hit with a belt is up there.

[–]C0812 3ポイント4ポイント  (6子コメント)

I got hit with a belt, a switch, hands, I got shit thrown at me. It's not like she put a pot on the stove and branded me with it. I'd like to see a poll with grown men and women, and see how many of them didn't get hit with a belt or a switch.

And I already know you gone come back and say,"Just because it happened to others doesn't mean it's right."

[–]DannicahC 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Grown? I'm in my later teens and still tremble a bit at the sight of my mama with anything in her hands. My sister is 6 and doesn't even know what getting whipped is. My mother has softened.

[–]CommanderCooper 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

I might have replied with that, yes. What's your defense against it, though?

[–]EltNoobl 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Shit my parents made me go and get my own switch and told me 'Dont come back with no paltry little twig or else I'll go get one, and you wont like what I'll bring back'

[–]heimdalsgate -3ポイント-2ポイント  (3子コメント)

Oh come the fuck on, don't hit your kids.

[–]liz_lemon_lover 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

It should read "When your mother physically abuses you in public & then threatens more abuse if you show emotion over it". Very healthy parenting techniques.

[–]wakawaka86 55ポイント56ポイント  (20子コメント)

More like white people. "Come here jimmie" "fuck you mom"

[–]baraxador 19ポイント20ポイント  (5子コメント)

Even if that's really funny, if something like this could even happen, a fiery tornado of mom rage would unleash, and leave the kid who said it with a sore ass, blue eye + 1 year membership of "Remember the last time?" Club.

[–]Zaroobalov 15ポイント16ポイント  (4子コメント)

Not necessarily. I've seen it. The mom just looked defeated.

[–]ButtLusting 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Seriously? lol??

As a chiense, who has a traditional as fuck chiense family, childhood was absolutely terrifying for me and my brother.

You can only play outside / watch tv after you finished all chores and homework, you can only stay up till 10pm, doesnt matter if dragonball Z is playing at midnight nope......

Also if you get anything below 80 in any class you are absolutely fucked, no entertainment for the rest of the year until marks improved.....

Worst of all, there is no arguing with parents, you are practically their bitch, whatever they say you either do it or get spanked, no exception. It doesnt matter what you think, you just have to do it.....

I dont know how black/white people raise their children but it seems like asians have the worst kind of parenting method.

[–]nestorishere 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

And Asians have historically been the model minority, I wonder why

[–]baraxador 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I forgot to type where I live, because I could definitely see people in developed countries reacting like you said, but here...

[–]OppressedCactus 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Where I live, it can be either one within a 10 mile radius.

America's finest city indeed!

[–]religion-kills 0ポイント1ポイント  (12子コメント)

Are white kids really the ones who act out? I was kind of under the impression that hood kids were the ones always doing stupid shit...

[–]demonicume 44ポイント45ポイント  (10子コメント)

What ever gave you that idea? Black mother carry belts in their purses. Shit, my mama would raise her hand and a belt would appear like Highlander or some shit. Whenever I hear someone say 'SHUT UP' to an adult, I know it's a white kid. Black kids do fucked up shit, too, but I've never seen one of us do that.

[–]JTtheLAR 16ポイント17ポイント  (5子コメント)

I'm white and have a lot of black friends. We all got our asses lit up regularly. Though, I am from the south where our schools still paddle the shit out of kids. "Picking a switch" was a regular occurrence in all of our childhoods down here.

[–]memyselfandi987 5ポイント6ポイント  (4子コメント)

And when I was a child, I was well acquainted with the wooden spoon. My mother had quite the assortment of them, and I was able to tell them apart by the way they felt on my ass.

[–]CommanderCooper 7ポイント8ポイント  (2子コメント)

That... almost sounds sexy.

[–]ThePantsThief 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

It's only sexy when you're at a friends house and their mom has to get the spoon out for you

[–]rpkarma 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

My grandmother (tiny 40kg 5' nothing NZ white woman) once snapped a wooden spoon on my ass.

[–]ikozehh 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

You've never heard of it cos the poor black kids never lived to tell the tale

[–]darthsparkle 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Im white and from san francisco. I still got put the fuck down if i acted out.

[–]raj96 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Idk how white kids say "shut up" or call their parents idiots. I did it once when I was 6 and got slapped into next week.

[–]megalurkeruygcxrtgbn 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

The hood kids who do stupid shit are the ones who don't have much parenting going on. And it's also generally not bad until late middle school/high school, when they think they're grown.

[–]p1kistikman -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

white people

You mean bitch people, I'm white and my parents beat the hell out of me like they were supposed to.

[–]nofxy 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

I feel like I missed out on something cuz I keep seeing SJW posted and have no idea what it is. Anyone wanna clue me in?

[–]Kumdogmillionaire 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's reddit's boogeyman(or woman)

[–]baraxador 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

SJW: Soshul Justiss Warriuh

[–]revychumso 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

socialist juan williams

[–]zedthehead 8ポイント9ポイント  (5子コメント)

You don't have to be an SJW to believe that you don't have to assault children to teach them right from wrong. Does hitting them work? Sure, it can. Are there better ways to deal with kids, though? Absolutely. Do those methods also fail sometimes? Yep.

It takes a fucking ocean of patience and compassion, though, and that is not something most people have like all that, unfortunately. As someone from the switch culture, I understand the impulse; however, I've never once felt the need to strike a child myself.

[–]baraxador 3ポイント4ポイント  (4子コメント)

This is the reason I'll never have kids myself, I dont know how to teach a kid. There are so many things to take in account, so many choices, it's just impossible in my mind to raise a child perfectly.

[–]coldazice 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Perfect is not the goal... Just better than everyone else :P

[–]helluvathing 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

As perfect as you can be should ideally be the goal imo... you could probably do a lot better than the average parent if you tried I think.

[–]helluvathing 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

You know, I think just the fact that you acknowledge there is a lot to raising a kid and you're even thinking about what factors might go into raising a child "perfectly" puts you above a lot of irresponsible parents out there. Kind of like how drivers who are scared of getting into accidents are more often times the better drivers because they are cautious on the roads.

Although yes I agree that if you're concerned about your lack of knowledge raising a kid, no one should have a say in whether or not you do - it's 100% your decision anyway. Just pointing out that your concerns might actually be part of the traits of a good parent.

[–]baraxador 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thanks, I have a niece and her mother doesn't know anything about raising a kid, that's why I'm so concerned.

[–]ok_ill_shut_up 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Or anyone with any experience with child development.

[–]Rafaigon 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Me too, it's my fault I didn't know dinosaur fossils were put here by Satan to confuse us.

[–]just_a_random_dood 116ポイント117ポイント  (23子コメント)

Hell, my mom gave me a look while we were in public, then when we got home it (the beating) was so much worse.

[–]MGLLNMod 46ポイント47ポイント  (12子コメント)

You knew your were fucked when she got real quiet and stopped telling you and your sibling to quit misbehaving.

I have PTSD from those belt-beatings.

[–]just_a_random_dood 23ポイント24ポイント  (5子コメント)

Bruh, I'm Indian, my mom has a roller, kinda like this used to help make food.

Sold. Fucking. Wood.

[–]Haneesh716 10ポイント11ポイント  (1子コメント)

Tbh that's an imitation Indian roller, no Indian family is gonna shell out for fancy handles like that. Ours was just a big cylinder with two small cylinders on either face.

And imo those long wooden spoons to the knuckles was by far the worst.

[–]FlameSpartan 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm so god damn glad I never got a spoon to the knuckles

[–]Pickledsoul 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

be glad its not the marble one

[–]just_a_random_dood 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Marble?

I've only seen it made of wood.

[–]AllDepressedChips 69ポイント70ポイント  (0子コメント)

You even had that awkward shake like a chihuahua too.

[–]anuragdidit 96ポイント97ポイント  (2子コメント)

And we managed to do it..

[–]AtomicKittenz 10ポイント11ポイント  (1子コメント)

Even with half of our face numb

[–]LamborghiniAngels 57ポイント58ポイント  (41子コメント)

I'm kind of late to this but oh well. One time I had the idea at Disneyland to twist a ketchup packet and throw it on the ground so it'd explode. We were all eating lunch and my Dad was right across from me. Well I threw it on the ground and it didn't explode. I then stepped on it because I wanted it to do something. Well it exploded but all threw one hole that was aimed right at my Dad. It went all over his white button up shirt and shoes. He slapped the absolute fuck outta me and I reeled. I started crying and everyone was looking at me. My mom stared me down and told me I had 5 seconds to fix my face or she'd slap me harder. Somehow I managed to do it and everytime after that became way easier.

[–]cheesenoodlesoup 9ポイント10ポイント  (1子コメント)

My parents did that with me then with every sibling younger then me they coddled them like fucking babies

I fucking disciplined by siblings more than my parents did, they gave parenting after I was old enough to take care of the kids

[–]LamborghiniAngels 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Seriously my little brothers get away with stuff I would've gotten beat before for doing at first it bugged me but now I'm genuinely happy that I was the only one.

[–]Trojanbp 26ポイント27ポイント  (4子コメント)

ITT: hit your kids because it worked for me or if you hit your kids you're an abusive parents raising fucked up kids.

Two extremes people both with merits and issues. Just because you experienced something one way doesn't mean it's universally true and will work for another. Physical punishment is an option and sometimes necessary with certain kids and behavior.

There should be a required Parenting class in high school given from what I'm reading ITT.

[–]ShotgunPete 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

Man it can help in some cases and I have plenty of friends that got "whoopins" growing up that turned out fine but I'm glad as fuck my parents didn't smack the shit outta me growing up. There are other ways to strike fear and remorse in a child's heart than giving them a wallop, believe me. Does it make you a bad person? Absolutely not but I sincerely think there are ways the work better. Hitting them is just easier and is a tried and true method.

[–]Uberhipster 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I would have preferred to have gotten a smack and be over. I got guilt trips, passive aggressiveness, the silent treatment, sermons. Years of psych abuse. Ideally you want Mr and Mrs Brady but in reality people have stress and all kinds of pressures to deal with so between a pedantic perfectionist who demands nothing less than a Brady wunderkind and a person who loves you for who you are but snaps every now and then when they lose patience and gives you a slap - I chose the latter. Obviously it goes without saying that both are better than a child abuser.

[–]HeelsDownEyesUp 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

There should be a required Parenting class in high school

Seriously, why do we have more sex ed classes being pushed but they're dropping home economics and not doing this? We need some basic parenting and domestic life skills being taught in schools, because parents now just aren't doing it.

[–]FlameSpartan 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I've been saying that exact shit for like a decade. I was in middle school.

[–]hatewrecked2 33ポイント34ポイント  (12子コメント)

[–]TheAlmightyConch 21ポイント22ポイント  (6子コメント)

there is a fuckin user base on that website?

lol

[–]MercilessBlueShell 25ポイント26ポイント  (4子コメント)

"Imgurians", as they call themselves.

[–]SecretiveNarwhals 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

So do they just, browse random pictures with no context given? Why the fuck dont they just use reddit?

[–]Haneesh716 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

"Blah blah operant conditioning" - last comment

Wow I love it when I get to show off my high school psych knowledge.

[–]OppressedCactus 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That me had me giggling.

Get thee to /r/iamverysmart!!

Edit... it's gone private. Oh. :(

[–]vaolnb 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Am I the only ones who's parents didn't need to physically harm them to get them to listen?

[–]GeorgeFromManagement 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

God dammit Mom

[–]shrekrepublic 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

my mom would never hit me in public she would just tell me we are going to talk at home. there was no talking, just tears.

[–]dbonham 57ポイント58ポイント  (63子コメント)

Don't hit your kids yall

[–]DarkDubzs 109ポイント110ポイント  (26子コメント)

It happened to all of us, we turned out relatively fine and it works. Unless you're besting your kid or hitting them all the time for no reason, I don't see the issue with it and it's been something done far before our time. Realistically, it's not going to end soon anyways.

[–]ckb614 19ポイント20ポイント  (6子コメント)

Plenty of parents have control of their kids without hitting them though. My parents never did and all their kids are college graduates with no real problems...

[–]g041k33p3r 24ポイント25ポイント  (4子コメント)

It's almost as if all kids are different and react differently to multiple forms of punishment? Crazy.

[–]ckb614 24ポイント25ポイント  (3子コメント)

If you're gonna take that route, the scientific data is pretty much all on the side of corporal punishment being deleterious to kids. Not to mention tons of countries have it outlawed and don't find their society to be crumbling.

I guess my point is that maybe it's not the kids that are the problem, but the parents who are choosing the easy way out instead of doing some research and finding healthier ways to control their children's behavior. If everything you learned about parenting was from watching your own parents, maybe you need to broaden your perspective.

[–]JanitorOfSanDiego 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Not that i disagree, but source for the "the scientific data is pretty much all on the side of corporal punishment being deleterious to kids" part?

Also, tons of countries outlawing it doesn't mean it doesn't happen, and "not crumbling" isn't necessarily the bar that you want to set.

[–]ckb614 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment_in_the_home

This article has a great summary with links to studies and meta-analysis, as well as criticism of those studies.

As for the "crumbling" comment: I didn't want to go so far as to say that they are a lot of the countries (among others) that make the US look like shit when it comes to being a civilized first world country, but I guess I just said it.

[–]Mr_LonelyLoner2 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

And how is that enforceable? The police wouldn't know you spanked your kid.

[–]DarkDubzs 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I know some of my friends didn't get hit either because they didn't misbehave much or they didn't respond well to it or maybe the parents just didn't want to. On the other hand, I had to be hit to learn. Me personally, but it's the parent's call with their kid because they know their child best and know what works and doesn't. So with that said, me personally, I had to be hit to learn. My parents tried making me have no games and shit, but I would just get more mad and say shit to my parents, but when they hit me I would shut up and cry. I'm not emotionally broken or have a lack of drive or want to be in gangs or hurt people or anything. I'm just a normal young adult making their way through college with big dreams that will probably never be fulfilled so then I'll buy a Porsche when I'm 45. But seriously, if anything, I'm happy I guess that they did it because it could have been the difference of me ending up being a dumb shit or the average position I'm in now. I don't think it correlates, but I'm just a kind person, I automatically like and welcome anyone unless they're an asshole and try to help people even by just listening to their problems and stuff. Fuck, this is a long comment.

[–]concept8 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Nah. In Sweden it's forbidden to hit your children.

[–]3030threatMod 2ポイント3ポイント  (6子コメント)

Some parents take it too far (like Adrian Peterson) and there needs to be a line somewhere. If you don't know who AP is, he's a runningback in the NFL who whipped his kid with a switch until the kid's scrotum bled. That kind of shit is fucked up

[–]BoomBam2 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

My mother used to lock me in a room and tie my hands to the bed post, strip me and whip me with a cord until her hands got weak, no amount of begging stopped her. She would even take a break and get right back to it for a couple of hours. I still have the scars. Why? i didn't "perfectly" clean my room or i didn't do the dishes "perfectly" or whatever. She always found some sort of excuse. Eventually i became desensitized but i would still scream and beg and pretend.

This started when i was 7-8 years old. When i was about 12 she tried to slap me once and i grabbed her hand, then her other hand; She tried to break free but couldn't. At that moment we both had the realization that she wasn't stronger than me anymore, all the anger just burst out of me and i punched her in the face. She started crying saying i was a bad son, blah blah blah. I didn't give a fuck. She never laid a finger on me again.

I'm 21 and she still thinks she was justified, that she was teaching me. Tells people i'm ungrateful for not calling or visiting my poor old mother.

Point is, you want to beat your kids? go for it, but don't lie to yourself. Some parents may be disciplining their kids, but the vast majority are taking out their anger on their children, and in the heat of the moment i assure you, the long term well being of their child doesn't factor in.

When i was starting 1st grade i was scared and crying, and i remember my mother hugged me for a while and told me everything is going to be okay,that she loves me and that the school was safe. And she would never let anything bad happen to me. I wish she kept that promise, as far as i'm concerned my mother died that day. That's the only good memory i have of her.

Anyway, Sorry for the wall of text. needed to vent a little.

[–]DarkDubzs 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

With a switch? Like a light switch? Wtf. Yeah, those people are obviously fucked and they shouldn't be doing that, but I would say the majority of the parents who hit their kids for discipline know what the limit is and don't go near it or cross it. That guy went miles out of bounds and was well into the realm of abuse and needs to have the kid taken away and he needs to go to jail if he didn't already. There will always be the bad apples.

[–]MAKESOMEFLAMES 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

A switch is a long object, usually wooden or something flexible enough to act as a whip. My dad used to make me "cut my own switch" from a birch tree

[–]Ienzo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

How do you whip someone with a light switch? Lmao this is what he's referring to by a switch

[–]Mr_LonelyLoner2 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Like a light switch?

nah

[–]autourbanbot 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Here's the Urban Dictionary definition of switch :


A flimsy tree branch used for whoopin' kids asses! Usually picked by the person who is about to get the ass whoopin'. Switch's grow on all trees and can be used if there is no belt or shoe around.


1. Grandma: Get yo' ass outside and go pick a switch cuz I'm bout to whip your ass for actin' a fool at school today.

2. You better not pick a small switch for your whoopin' becuz she'll send you back out to pick a bigger one.

3. Boy 1: What happen your your legs??

Boy 2: I got a whoppin' last night with a switch.

Boy 1: Damn, is that abuse?

Boy 2: Apparently my Mom does not think so.


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[–]Knowmadz 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ya, just smack em a little.

[–]IIlIlIlIllIIllIIlIll 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

At least once, when the situation warrants it, you have to show your child that you are capable in your heart of smacking them upside their head. It gives them a reason to take you seriously when you raise your voice. If you have ever had to tell your kid to stop and come to you as they are dancing around a parking lot behind a car that's backing out, you can appreciate what I'm talking about.

[–]stee_vo 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

Or you can just follow through on your ultimatums.

"one more word and you won't be getting anything from [insert store or whatever] and we'll go home, got it?"

If they then continue with their shit then you do what you said you'd do. Easy as pie. If you don't do this they'll just think of your threats as empty and they'll continue being assholes.

[–]IIlIlIlIllIIllIIlIll 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

I reward my kids for being good but I refuse to negotiate the conditions of their behavior.

[–]HeelsDownEyesUp 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

All my life I had shitty parents, really isolated. Last family reunion I saw plenty of relatives who were new parents. Surprising as hell the toddlers were so well behaved, and the stories weren't bad. My parents got all high and mighty about their alpha BS, these parents said something like, "Oh, the trip to Disney was fine, but the third time my kid just started getting crazy and running around. So I grabbed him and we left right then-- grandparents there and all. Too bad for him, nuh-uh am I dealing with that."

I was thinking, shit... my parents would've given me the ol' "Now SMILE, be HAPPY you little fucker!" spiel and dragged me through the park.

[–]Cock_unblocker 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

That way they can grow up like little terds and someone else can get the pleasure of hitting them first

[–]CommanderCooper 6ポイント7ポイント  (2子コメント)

Because people hitting each other leads to a functional society.

[–]Cock_unblocker 12ポイント13ポイント  (1子コメント)

I mean it got us this far. People being held accountable by governing bodies for hitting their kids is only very recent.

[–]CommanderCooper -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Slavery got us pretty far, too.

[–]afshani3 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hahahah so true

[–]spearchuckin 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

When your mom beat your sibling in front of you and she tell you have five seconds to stop laughing before she beat you too.

[–]UOUPv2 7ポイント8ポイント  (2子コメント)

Why are chihuahuas so fucking cute?

[–]DisGateway 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

/r/chihuahua

I get the feeling you'll like it.

[–]Period-Chopsticks -1ポイント0ポイント  (45子コメント)

Why hit your kids though?

[–]Freefailing 84ポイント85ポイント  (22子コメント)

Cuz they're son's of bitches who need to learn to behave in public.

Source: I was one and now I have learned.

[–]tomtomdam 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

It was never antisocial behaviour for me, but just doing stupid shit like throwing rocks at a wall near a window. Of course, I smashed the window and now I know that I shouldn't be an idiot when doing things for fun.

[–]CommanderCooper 23ポイント24ポイント  (1子コメント)

I learned too, but no hitting was involved.

[–]ThePantsThief 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Some kids are better behaved than others

[–]scarflash 28ポイント29ポイント  (0子コメント)

Cause they can be a little shit sometimes

[–]Trojanbp 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Kids respond differently to different punishments and rewards. Taking away electronics and playtime works for some, it did for me, and others need a belt out switch, worked for my brother. If one isn't working try the other. Hitting is always an option but shouldn't always be the first and only option.

[–]IIlIlIlIllIIllIIlIll 14ポイント15ポイント  (16子コメント)

When your kids are acting like idiots and you need them to stop, there are a few things that you need to take into account.

  • kids don't use logic so you cannot use reasoning with them to make them stop.
  • kids have no need for money nor do they understand how money works so you can't bribe them to stop.
  • Kids do not have a developed skill to read emotions and how to react to the emotions of other people. So an angry look or words through clenched teeth may be misread.
  • Kids do not have the skill to ascertain between figures of speech and actual threats so threatening them my make them laugh in your face.
  • Kids have no idea how to evaluate risk and react accordingly so giving ultimatums is a wildcard.

  • Every child understands pain and fear and will do anything to make it stop.

Once a child is brought back into reality with a slap upside their heads, you will have their full attention and they will understand that you are serious. They will not contradict or question what comes out of your mouth after that.

[–]demonicume 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Because kids are assholes and the dumb ones don't learn until they've been smacked. If you have a kids that behaves on commands, awesome. In the meanwhile, kids test limits. That hard limit needs to be a hard smack to the backside.

[–]yohohoanda 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

"Keep crying and I'm going to give you a reason to cry."

[–]Twitch92 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

Do timeouts not work for anyone else?

[–]FlameSpartan 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Not in my family. My sister, maybe, but the boys? Hell no. We needed something tougher than sitting in an empty room for five minutes. And you know what? We turned out pretty damn fine.

[–]Ryuksapple 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Some kids yes, some kids no. Grounding and timeouts didn't do shit for me. I could stand in a corner for an hour and entertain myself in my own head. I couldn't stand being whipped. That's the punishment that was effective for me

[–]SacredGeometry25 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Really fucked up, to be honest.