Disciplining children..

[jassilem]

A childhood friend of mine once bit me for going in his Sesame Street playhouse without permission, so his mom gathered all of the neighborhood kids as an audience and bit him on the hand until he bled

I remember that very vividly lol

Oh my... Liam has bit me till I bled.. I would never dream of doing that..

My friend's little girl bit her really hard on the boob.. my friend was so angry and hurt she bit her daughter back her little girl never bit my friend again.. So I guess it works for some... but ... I am not so sure on that one... Liam would probably just laugh at me...

 

[redliner]

If you set the rules from day one and don't stray from it they will fall in line. The key is consistency. It might take weeks for it to work. It does work. Well for my son it did. He is great well mannered little boy now.

 

[Tuffdisc]

What has this world come to when you become afraid to discipline your children in public for fear that they'll say you abused them? Back when I was a child I never acted out in a restaurant or public place and if I did I would've been disciplined. When a child cannot sit through dinner and has to run, jump and play in a restaurant and the parents don't do anything... It makes me embarrassed to be related to them. Lets just say when the bill came tonight i was ready to be out the door. Then they continue outside in the parking lot.

There is a thin line between abuse and discipline. If the parents verbally abuse or uses excessive force to "discipline" the child, that is what you call abuse. If its just a spank or two, maybe more, then I won't consider that abuse, but discipline

 

[slicktrickery]

consequences, kids need to understand consequences.
it's like raising a dog, the 3 R's
reprimant, reward, repeat.

 

[Darrell]

This has me thinking of a news article I read a while back.

A young kid chased all his classmates and teacher out of the classroom with scissors. Then he barricaded himself in.

The Police came, and they safely negotiated him out.

When did we start negotiating with children? I'm just curious.

If that had been ME in there, my parents would have stormed the classroom themselves, and beat my ass all the way home.

I didn't do shit like that though because I received adequate discipline growing up so that I fucking KNEW better than to pull any shit like that kid.

 

[Tim]

This has me thinking of a news article I read a while back.

A young kid chased all his classmates and teacher out of the classroom with scissors. Then he barricaded himself in.

The Police came, and they safely negotiated him out.

When did we start negotiating with children? I'm just curious.

If that had been ME in there, my parents would have stormed the classroom themselves, and beat my ass all the way home.

I didn't do shit like that though because I received adequate discipline growing up so that I fucking KNEW better than to pull any shit like that kid.

It sounds like he may have been emotionally unstable? And I'm sure they only negotiated with him so they could get him out without the kid getting hurt... :dunno

It would be nice to know the details, but on the surface it sounds more like a disturbed kid rather than a discipline problem. But I could be wrong

 

[Aeval]

This has me thinking of a news article I read a while back.

A young kid chased all his classmates and teacher out of the classroom with scissors. Then he barricaded himself in.

The Police came, and they safely negotiated him out.

When did we start negotiating with children? I'm just curious.

If that had been ME in there, my parents would have stormed the classroom themselves, and beat my ass all the way home.

I didn't do shit like that though because I received adequate discipline growing up so that I fucking KNEW better than to pull any shit like that kid.

Exactly!

Kids use to fear their parents....in a respectful way.

I mean that in the most sincere, decent way...not that all kids thought they were going to be beaten, just they "feared" what would happen...whether it be disappointing looks, a lecture...whatever.

A friend is a supervisor at a school, a couple of years ago a 15/16 year old boy was sent out of his class for mis-behaving, he was suppose to go to the principal's office but headed for the door. My friend asked him what he was doing and he said "fuck you bitch". She was wild, but couldn't say anything. The principal came out and got the same thing but the kid added "what are you going to do about it?" And the kid knew he was right...a phone call to the parents was useless, he couldn't physically grab him so he just watched him walk away....brutal.