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What a horrible thing to do to a child.

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mpm32:
She did stand by and do nothing because this wasn't the first time the kid was beaten.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: shmokes on April 09, 2008, 08:01:42 am ---Articulate for me the difference between discipline and beating.

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Discipline:  A quick swat on a diapered rear when a toddler walks into the street.
Beating:  Multiple hits, often on unprotected skin, that leave marks.

Works for me.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on April 09, 2008, 02:01:26 am ---What gets me about it is the guy who beat her is 26 years old, probably beat her after she stepped in front of the TV during a game session, and the 19 year old mother did nothing to stop the beating. What the ---fudgesicle--- was she doing? Painting her fingernails?

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Ever been in a house like that?  The mom probably couldn't have stopped him if she tried.  Sure, she absolutely should have tried - I would expect that of any mother.  She probably wouldn't succeed, though, and would end up beaten to crap along with the baby.  Guys like that aren't going to stop beating the kid just because mommy came in the room and yelled at him.  Bad mother, absolutely, for not trying or at least calling the cops, but it's not nearly as simple as the mother just sitting there acquiescent about it.

ChadTower:

I agree with Ed.  Discipline is once or twice.  Beating is going past that.  There are levels beyond beating, too.  I have some memories I can still see when I close my eyes 25 years later.

shardian:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on April 09, 2008, 09:42:12 am ---I'd probably be better behaved if I had been beaten more as a child.

 :dunno

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"beating" doesn't make you better behaved. It makes you harbor deep seeded resentment, anger, fear, etc. I had my share of severe butt whippings with a belt, hand, hair brush - but I don't feel I was ever "beaten". Did those severe butt whippings accomplish anything? Hell no. All I learned was that I could do whatever the hell I wanted, and all it would cost me is a quick butt whipping once a month or so. Well worth the price in my young mind. ;D

Now my younger cousins, they are beaten. A day don't go by that they aren't smacked, whipped, threatened, etc. It is sad to see kids who intentionally do things wrong, just because they know that is the only time the parent actually pays attention to them - by hitting and yelling of course.If you spank or smack your kid that often, you are most definitely beating your kid. If you crack out the belt once every blue moon or so, you are disciplining your kid...but it doesn't really accomplish anything.

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