Step out of line...receive a slap around the head.

[Feckless Wench]

As some of you may know, I'm in India at present. One thing I have noticed is that the kids do NOT step out of line!

 

It's perfectly acceptable for any adult here to give any wayward child a sharp slap on the back of the head. Parents do it, policemen do it as do shopkeepers etc. My hubby is on a CISCO course out here while we're on holiday. It's taught by Indians. One of the Indian guys on the course fell asleep one afternoon....the instructor walked up to him and just whacked him around the head...hard enough to be heard across the room. Yet no one (except the foreigners) was at all surprised!

 

Out shopping the other night there was a young Indian boy arranging the stalls outside the store. A passing policeman decided that the stalls were too far onto the sidewalk and just walked up to him and walloped him hard. His father didn't bat an eyelid! If a kid in our culture was hit that hard on the head, we'd be rushing the poor little darling to the ER!

 

The same at the Sikh Temple we went to...a kid was paddling in the 'Holy Lake'...and got slapped around the head by a Sikh 'minister'. Did anyone object? No...even the kid accepted it without complaint.

 

Now maybe in our culture we think this is assault / child abuse etc. But which culture has the problem with disrespectful kids who are only interested in themselves. It's not the Indians! Their kids are respectful, helpful and study hard in school. They also expect to work in the family business (without pay) as soon as they are old enough.

 

I think we got it wrong again Clyde!

 

(Oh to be able to try this on my pupils in school............)

[Cloaked]

It used to be that way. My dad wouldn't bat an eye to crack me in the head if I acted stupid. Today kids call the police and DCFS gets involved. Kids behaved much better if they knew a swift kick in the ass was coming if they misbehaved.

[Feckless Wench]

There is no deterrent any more....*sighs*

 

The thing is, has our society gone so far into the 'I've got rights' way of thinking that it's too late to turn it around? Sure we can punish kids by sending them to their rooms etc, but their rooms usually contain all of the comforts they could need anyway....and it's often where they spend most of their time by choice.

 

I think we need to bring back the parents RIGHT to bring their kids back into line. I disagree with beating kids, but an occasional whack when misbehaving doesn't do anyone any harm.

 

As for the crap about 'It's teaching them to be violent'...it's not. I am completely non-violent, yet received more than one slap for misbehaving as a kid.

 

What about the little ones that are too young to understand reason? 'No darling, that electrical socket will bite your fingers' is nothing compared to the sudden shock of a slap on the ass. They remember that because it hurt.....but not as much as being electrocuted would have smarted!

[Phreakwars]

I see the Sucks500 guys are sending their greetings to everyone.

 

Thanx guys:rolleyes:

 

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[Feckless Wench]

butt hole!!!