PreTeena by Allison Barrows for August 21, 2013

Ooh, I can hear the lawyers lining up outside the door…

Thanks, Mom

I was a teacher for more than 10 years. I generally cannot agree with the physical chastisement of young people. However, in Jeri Keene’s case…!

Or her skinny behind.

To little too late maybe. A smack on the bottom in the early years might have avoided the punch in the arm today? I’m very torn about this sort of thing.

Psychologists do say that any form of punishment can scar a child for life. It’s much more important to teach them that there are no consequences for their actions so they learn that they can continue to get away with anything they do.

Anyone remember Benjamin Spock? His first child-rearing book said “Don’t you dare hit your child!!” and his second one (done when his own kids were teenagers) said, “Forget what I said before, smack their rebellious behinds!”So yes, when I have kids of my own, they WILL get physically disciplined when necessaryIf my parents and teachers had NOT done that to me, I would not have been shocked into realising I was doing wrong and thusly taken steps to correct myself.

There is a difference between swatting on the butt and beating with a belt or something else. A good swatting never hurt anyone.

Dang. Not hard enough. She got up.

There’s a big difference between spanking a child as discipline and child abuse. When I was a kid I much preferred a spanking to being grounded or having the tv taken away from me for a week. A spanking is done and over but grounding and other punishments are longer lasting. I was never spanked so bad I couldn’t sit down for a week (that’s just an expression).

I get tired of people saying you shouldn’t spank your kids, just use timeouts. Timeouts never worked with my kids. I swatted their butts when it was needed, which wasn’t too often.

you people with your non-violence in correcting your children, have to only look at the crime rate in the U.S. of A. to figure out that you are just full of it. Spare the rod and spoil the child is a good example of what is wrong with the United States. My wife and I both spanked all of our children when they needed it and they all turned out as well adjusted and productive individuals.

Train them early like puppies, a newspaper across the fannie to get their attention and then hold their nose to the source so they’ll know why. Oh. And mandatory death penalty for all parking violations. Ok. Kidding on that last one. Sort of.

I would quote Grandpa from the strip Boondocks: “I hate to see a child go unbeaten!”

Didn’t they just come off of summer vacation a couple months ago?

Gee, Mom, why are you worried?Jeri doesn’t really need school.She will use her looks and body to hook a man to take care of her.Just like you did.

Pants often needed a good ‘dusting’ after enough was enough.

Go ahead and beat them — if that’s the behavior you want them to copy.