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Old 02-08-2011, 12:14 AM   #14
Rathji
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
When it comes to keeping kids away from that stupid gangbanging life style, sometimes measures like these have to be taken.

A big part of the gangster life style is a complete disregard for authority figures.

So usually talking to these kids doesn't work, even incarceration doesn't work because jail time to a lot of these members is a right of passage.

Sometimes public shaming like this can be effective.

It wasn't a vicious beating or an abusive beating by any stretch.

If it was he would have bare skinned him, or actually not hit him on the hip.
Even if such a strict punishment was deserved, which I will concede because it isn't important to my point, it pretty clearly crossed the line between a disciplinary 'spanking' and a frustration or anger fueled 'spanking'.

When you are hitting your kids out of anger, justified or not, that becomes a beating. I think that encouraging parents to hit their kids out of anger is a bad idea.
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