Extreme Brat Camp - ch4 now

[PourquoiTuGachesTaVie]

Some of these children are far too young to be in a place like this. They have FIVE year olds there. Wtf?

[Hatespiders]

I must have had many hundreds of pupils aged 6 - 12 yrs pass through my hands during my teaching career. The thought of causing physical pain, hitting, smacking or beating any one of them fills me with revulsion. There are so many other ways of encouraging children to behave well.

'Disgrace' I feel for your poor db and yourself. My dsis and I were treated in much the same way, in spite of being quiet, timid and well-behaved little girls. We both went nc as soon as we left home to go to Uni. Our parents never saw us ever again.

[TooHasty]

I will start off by saying I don't smack my kids because it is not in keeping with current thinking on parenting.
BUT
I can't ignore that parents/schools in generations before us who didn't think twice about doling out corporal punishment and generally speaking turned out much more respectful, more decent offspring than we see today.We think we have all the answers, but the evidence says otherwise.

[Hatespiders]

Toohasty, my dh would probably agree with you. In Africa, children are beaten with father's belt or mother's stick, and even passers-by wallop naughty/cheeky children in the street or the marketplace. Teachers have enormous sticks and use them a lot. African children are very submissive and timid with adults. They bow their heads to speak to you and almost whisper. My dh was hit, belted and smacked during all his childhood. I still wouldn't want this smacking culture to become popular here once more. Lots of social changes have occurred since the bad old days. The media, food additives, mums having to go out to work and being very tired, computers; all sorts of possible behavioural triggers. Not beating children any more isn't imho the reason for the deterioration, and it isn't the remedy either.