by Chad Claar

Created on: December 30, 2006   Last Updated: April 27, 2007

I agree. Things have gone way to far the other way these days. In a race to be the most politically correct and the most proper things have gotten absurd. There is a large difference between abuse of any type and discipline. Children in general are so out of control these days because if you look at your child wrong they have you in court. How is spanking your child in thier bottom abusing them? I mean when the government is telling you how to raise your children there's something wrong. Chances are these people were raised in a time when they could give a tap on the rear, and they grew up to be senators and governors! I almost gotta figure one of the first people to complain and set the laws in motion don't even have children. I found out in my personal experience that it's the ones who don't have children who are the first to tell you how to raise them. I was 8 years old when my sister was born, and my mother babysat a lot as I was growing up. I've been around babies and children for years and I like to thing I have a good idea on what I'm doing. However according to some people I don't have a clue. I find it amusing that someone who never had a child of their own can tell someone else what they are doing wrong. I know it seems like we've gone the entire wrong way here but it is connected. When someone who has no children sees you yell at your child and makes a comment about how they wouldn't have to it makes you wonder about their methods. What would they do so different than you that their child wouldn't have the terrible two's and be a perfect angel. I'm not sure exactly what the laws are in my area on child discipline, however I'll openly admit that as a last resort I have been known to tap my child on her rear. She's usually a good kid but sometimes she gets out of control and she won't respond to any other reprimands. Does this make me an abusive parent? Does the occasional swat on the bottom make me a bully? No, what it makes me is a parent who wants my child to behave and resorting to what my parents did to me that worked. If everyone took these laws literally I'm sure the courts would be filled with people suing their parents for abuse, because I don't know about you but when I was a kid if you weren't behaving, you weren't sitting for a while. I like to think I turned out OK. I don't go out and torture little animals or hit people with bats or commit crimes. These do-gooders need to re assess these spanking rules and figure out how to re align them. Perhaps maybe even re focus their sights on people who deserve it and not paint with the broad stroke they have been. This is just my view on the subject. I see a lot wrong with what's going on these days. When you can't reprimand your own child without fear of criminal prosecution there's a problem...

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