Lexie_dog
UNLEASHING THE BEAST!
dear gods... don't you lot instill discipline in your children?
I don't have any but my brother and I were taught to respect our elders and do as we're told..
if we didn't then we were punished.. none of this bargaining crap..
next time he answers back take something he likes ( a game maybe ) and smash it and leave it on his bed with a note saying that it will continue to happen if his behaviour doesn't improve.
his father should be hitting the boy when he's here and the boy is misbehaving..
Totally unacceptable. I know that sometimes we lose a lot of communication and inference in the written reply, but you really need to think about what you're saying, and more importantly how you are saying it. This is a large online community and whilst I respect the right to opinion and giving advice, there's ways of saying things and there's ways of alienating people who are looking for KIND advice.
Every generation has had "issues" with the youth of that era being deemed disrespectful and in need of more discipline. 50's had the mods and rockers etc so to just blanket sweep an entire generation of children is a bit knee-jerk.
I've been left with substantial psychological issues as a result of "punishment" meted out by my parents, and the "discipline" handed out was in my view excessive. I don't want, nor ask for sympathy, but I think for the broad sweeping message that your posts are coming across with that we need to violently discipline our children and that's the answer to societys problems is making me think you need to, in local parlance, "catch a grip".
I like to think I'm a good person IN SPITE of the harsh disciplinarian attitude of my father and not because of it.
I don't hit my dog either, I like to think I'm a bit more humane than that. I've NEVER hit her and she's well trained. A failing in her toileting habits would be a failure in my ownership, she responds to how I've reacted to her needs. Children are not dissimilar.
Do you know, having read the other replies of yours to this thread in the past few minutes, I don't think I like you at all. And that's a shame.
You talk of respect but show none. Either your beat 'em til they take note approach missed step with your attitude towards your peers, or you're just unpleasant. Pure bully by the sounds of this post.
Either way, I think you have burnt a good few bridges here, which overall is your loss.
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