Hitting children.

@divegeester said
Then why make the assertion if you don’t care about it and can’t back it up?

@rajk999 said
What I said is that 5 yr olds who deserve a spanking should get one.

@wolfgang59 said
What on earth could a 5 year-old do to deserve a spanking?
This is insane!

@rajk999 said
However
.- hitting a 5 yr old who is HITTING OTHERS, is NECESSARY.

@wolfgang59 said
Classic.
You know that it is a PROVEN FACT that children learn through mimicry?
They will do as you do (and not as you say).

So when you hit a 5 year-old, he is learning that to get your own way you hurt
others. And he will soon be role-playing that scenario and then acting it out.

I had a foster-son. For a month, almost daily he would thump me. He was
a big ...[text shortened]... he continued hitting his siblings
and mother. Spankings had not worked well with him. mmm Why not?

@rajk999 said
I think you are disappointed that your own country failed to enforce the lows and commandments of God while other lesser ones have done a better job of it. Gods judgment on the UK might very well be a terrible and unbearable one ... coming soon.

I've always been partial to submission holds. People always seem to miss them in debates like this one.

@wolfgang59 said
Any teachers here will know that the majority of any class crave the teacher's
approval, "punishment" therefore is not giving attention. The children this does
not work with are, in my experience, from damaged homes.

And yes consistency. Hard to do sometimes (we all have our moods) but essential.

@rajk999 said
You need to get out of your little middle class suburban town in Australia and see the real world once in a while.

@philokalia said
Usually, children enjoy the attention of the other students, and thus having allies who are entertained by their antics will encourage the behavior.

If the kids are not ignored by their own friends in this case, the teachers approval isn't that important,, IMO.

@rajk999 said
Seen kids in Walmart throwing tantrum, cursing their mother and rolling on the floor screaming as if someone was killing them? Well a good woooping will end that.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. (Proverbs 22:15 ASV)

@bigdoggproblem said
I've always been partial to submission holds. People always seem to miss them in debates like this one.

@divegeester said
What I’m disappointed in is that you’ve turned out to be the religionist I initially thought you were a few years ago, rather than the one someone convinced me you probably were.

Your religion would make me quite unhappy and it is a tough enough existence without all this Old Testament judgmental rhetoric you are preaching, which is ugly to be honest.

@wolfgang59 said
No.
It will suspend that behaviour. Not end it.

Why is the kid behaving like that?

@rajk999 said
What I believe should not affect your happiness. Your beliefs have no effect on me. If you for one minute think that religion, Christianity, God, Christ should make you feel nice and happy all the time then you are sadly mistaken.