SirPsycho said:

go get a branch off that tree

DanceWme said:

i miss my granny now...


she would whoop us for tryna get a second cup of koolaid (TS)

SirPsycho said:

My Granny broke a wooden spoon on my brothers butt once And my mother was really good at the ol" "smack upside the head"

SirPsycho said:

my grandma would beat me and say "thats not for what ya did but for what ya gonna do"


i be like ... wtf!

DanceWme said:

black women are quick!

SirPsycho said:

union119 said:

I'd say the horse is out of the barn.

chillichocaholic said:

yeahh...



im sorry i seen too many bad ass kids (who's parents dont spank em) to ever feel about about physical discipline...


it only becomes a problem if the parents is doing it out of anger...

which looking back ...my parents never did...


embarrasment maybe, but not anger

Parenting is really difficult, and I can see how so many people can go wrong.

It's not all about spanking or positive reinforcement. It's about doing all you can to make them into well-rounded, smart, respectful human beings.

Sometimes you need to praise them, sometimes you need to scold them, and sometimes a good whack is in order.

I know someone with 2 teenage kids. A very kind and considerate person, who probably has never raised her voice at her kids. As a result, she has no control whatsoever over them. Besides the usual misdeeds (truancy, pot smoking, drinking) these kids have no desire to continue studying and are content sitting at home watching TV. The mom is in anguish and pleads with them every week to get their acts in order. But, the kids have no respect for her authority, since she basically was a friend to them all their life.

THAT is what I hope to avoid in the near future. Every day I ask myself; "Am I too strict? Am I too lax? Am I too demanding? Am I not demanding enough?"

It's enough to drive you off the wall.

ban him from his PS2 4 a week

that seems to work... 4 now

prb said:

My son has been "forgetting" to bring home his workbooks...so his Nintendo DS has been confiscated indefitely, and the Gamecube is in a bag next to our bed.

PurpleJedi said:

i dont have an issue with school work- he loves school work- and actually wishes he did get homework..its picking up after himself thats my main gripe....AND leaving the PS controllers on the floor one has already been trodden on and broken.

SirPsycho said:

DanceWme said:

SirPsycho said:

You ain't lyin. . .

Actually, the sermon comes simultaneously WITH the beating:

"Didn't. I. Tell. You. Not. To. Go. Outside. When. The. Street. Lights. Came. On?? DIDN'T. I.?????"
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whip their little asses.

if U were raised in the 70's, then U should have any problems with that.

a stick from outside, the broom, mop, hanger, any electric cord, a wet towel
a real whip(the zorro kind),

Smack! Oooh, Papa.
Smack! Smack! Oooh, Papa, Papa.

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA...

Kill them.

NuPwr319 said:

have you so out of breath you can't even cry correct

SirPsycho said:

I remember all that too .... I can't really laugh at it though....

U know I dont find the whole electric kettle/iron cord thing funny at all. But maybe because while I was groing up on of my best friend used to get beat so bad with one by her mother that she would come to school whith black and blue whip cord marks from her to toe.....and instead of the kids being sympathetic everyone used to tease the hell out of her..
I was a witness to one of those beatings and I've never been so horrified, the memory has stuck in my head...
Needless to say for a while there my friend didnt live with her mother

purplesweat said:

i still think this is the best advice right here.

union119 said:

Shucks