As per my previous reply in this thread, I wholeheartedly agree with you.Originally Posted by to0kenZA
As per my previous reply in this thread, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
Sorry, I didn't even read that far back, stupid of me. I just saw the title and immediately shit the bed. I'm getting so tired of the monkeys running this country. Some days it feels like there's no good reason to stay here anymore. Most of my friends are already making plans to leave if they have not already or at least have a backup plan in the pipeline. Such a sad state of affairs.
I got the belt and I grew up fine.
I think it's to protect some people that take it too far. I work in retail and we caught a 5 year old stealing, called the mother over then we had to call security because she had punched him one shot onto the floor and was ready to have another go. It took 4 people to calm her down, I felt bad for the kid.
Seriously, there's a smack as a disciplinary warning and punishment (getting a belt across the ass), then there is abuse like above.
I still don't see how this law will protect the child from abuse ( other than giving children smacks at home...smacks not pure abuse). Child abuse is rife in this country but people would have reported people children before this law.
Nope. Never been clouted with a wooden spoon. But I have had several canes used in vain attempt to snap my will, the top of a t-square, a lamb-squasher (place hands on left and right door post looking out of classroom, take a flat hand between shoulder blades when least expected and go cart-wheeling out of class), ruler (plastic and wooden), slipper, belt, shoe, more flat hand, etc, etc.Anyone else have a few wooden spoons broken on them?
In national service it was 25 kg concrete block, various and several different kind of leaves on other side of parade ground (some 800m away), multiple 2.4km runs, push-ups, bush smarties (anti-malaria tablets; multiples), roofie rides in back of bakkie at ungodly speeds, more running, more op-voks than I care to recall, more bush smarties, etc, etc.
And I am not a serial killer, terrorist, mass murderer, stalker or anything similar.
There is a time and place for everything, but this is just plain ludicrous. If I was considering kids and government started motions to introduce this, I would simply give it up, sterilise myself or lop it off so there was never a chance of kids.
My kids get put in "time-out", get certain pleasures taken away and all sorts of inventive ways of highlighting the error of their ways, but there is a time and place for a smack on the bum. It's never over the top or much more than one klap to the rump. It's not every day or week, but when appropriate. But making this a law is just plain doff.
People who abuse children will not be deterred by the introduction of such a law. What it may create though is an awareness for those children who are abused that it is not okay to be abused as they are and perhaps they might speak out about their situation. For them, maybe, this might be relevant and a blessing in disguise. Thoughts?
and the stupidity train keeps on chugging along Choo Choo!
shafugup and run the country not our lives you useless sacks of shit
Play games, not platforms
chiming in late here, but i totally believe in "actions and consequences". when i was a laaitie and did something wrong, i knew i was going to be punished. the severity of the punishment was directly related to the severity of the transgression. this often included being spanked. not once did i ever feel like the spanking i got was not deserved.
as i grew older i did less things wrong for fear of punishment. this taught me values that i feel a lot of youngsters (and by now, older people) are sorely missing. every action has consequences - think about those consequences before you perform the actions.
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