How about Divina concentrates on how to stop the sexualisation of children. Stop child trafficking, child porn, sexual abuse instead of harassing good parents trying to raise decent kids. A typical woke naval gazing academic. Leave parents to discipline their children in a manner that works for them because every child is unique. This line about what other countries are doing is wearing a bit thin.
Smack on, James 🤪 Same discussion went on studying at university. When a child is too young to know what is right and wrong am I supposed to just let them run across the road or hold their hand and smack their bottom if they try to pull away and run in front of a car? One of my children loved 240 volt power points when they were crawling and there was no way we could plug power points in every place we went, so a smack on the hand and that cured them and stopped them from having 240 volts through their little body. Perhaps I have should have tried to reason with a child too young to speak and let them keep touching the power point and then explain to the World health organisation or some other bureaucrat that the child died and I was just following their orders???
there are times when a damned good thrashing is required, and that is not confined to children. there are activists who could benefit from the same action.
Thank you James. I agree with your take, spot on. I do not recall corporal punishment at home from my parents, but they certainly 'manipulated' me by their 'discussions' with me. I might have preferred the rod in retrospect. At school, I was dealt corporal punishment, officially sanctioned by the school, by senior students. I would most assuredly ban that if its still extant.
Again a spot on response James. My wife and I lived in NZ some year back went this issue was raging and the academics used the same angle smacking is violence. Rubbish. Oh and the other sound bite they used was smacking makes kids violent. I have observed, having raised 4 kids and watched there friends the exact opposite is true. This stuff is so infuriating. Oh and good on your Mum 👍😊👍
Schools removed the cane for teenagers as the ultimate bad behaviour control. Now teachers are resigning because they can't control their classes and learning is replaced with crowd control.
Our local high school doesn't have school rules but a list of rights. Students who misbehave are suspended and sent home for the day or weeks. This is a reward for bad behaviour. Don't like being here today or being asked or told to do something. Miss behave and get sent home !!
I had some tenants in my home who had just come out from being locked up in juvenile justice. ALL came from broken homes.
Undisciplined and selfish parents produced boys who broke the law by hurting others or destroying property.
Coming from a country in the rest of the world go you good things. The banning of smacking has not at all diminished children being killed by useless parents or more to the point their useless shaggers but it has certainly diminished respect, manners and behaviour in young ones to such an extent as to create a criminal underclass of youth. Keep your smacking and keep the cane at school if you can.
Yes, yes, and yes! I think today’s parents finally react angrily out of frustration, when a quick cool-blooded smack would deal with the situation speedily. Many’s the time my shoe was came off behind a K-mart clothes rack, and done! ✅
When my husband and his brothers were children, my mother-in-law bought something called an 'Aussie Bum Smacker'. She thought it was the best thing since sliced bread!!! It was in the shape of a hand and was designed specifically for the purpose of smacking children! They found it at some kind of novelty/souvenir shop, so there was definitely meant to be a humorous side to it as well! Nevertheless, my mother-in-law did put it to use to discipline her children and apparently it hurt a lot!
Somehow, I don't think you'd be able to buy an 'Aussie Bum Smacker' in the shops these days!
Whatever you do, DON'T smack your son. If you do, he is in grave danger of turning into a strong, responsible, resilient man with leadership skills. And the 'progressive' elites certainly wouldn't want that, would they?! That's because this kind of man is a threat to the 'progressive' elites and gets in the way of their effort to destroy the west.
"The doctor said Australia should ban smacking “to come in line with 65 other countries” where smacking is banned." What line? The firing line for those countries wishing to commit democratic suicide???
Brilliantly expounded as always, James. One of our sons would respond to "if you do that again, you will get a smack on your hand" with a defiant repeat of said behavior. He would receive the hand smack, cry, say 'sorry mummy' and happily continue with life. One of his brothers required a lock on his door so that there was a physical barrier before he could calm down sometimes. The other brother would burst into tears at a disappointed look. They need boundaries, applied according to individual characteristics.
We must assume parents know their kids best, that they love their kids. Anti smacking laws assume the opposite, and also that the State has the right to undermine the role of parents. Any law based upon this should be revoked.
I agree with God that if we spare the rod we spoil the child, but I also agree that if we train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Parenting requires time, love and patience, but the best advice I can give from my experience is to teach them biblical principles by reading the bible to them daily and encourage them to attend Sunday school, brigades, scripture classes, ISCF, well controlled biblical youth groups, bible studies, prayer meetings, find their friends at same and fellowship with their family on a regular if not daily basis. One problem I have found is that they often correct their bible teachers when they make mistakes e.g. one said he had not sinned since he became a believer, but my son replied, "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us." The teacher was forced to read the bible and correct the wrong teaching they had been given at a Charismatic church.
I spent more time playing with my children and giving them big hugs when I came home from work.
My wife also retired from full time work to be with our children when they were young.
The results are priceless and I may be biased, but I think they are amazing people now.
Another anti Biblical activity. The Bible clearly says, spare the rod and spoil the child . This is exactly what has happened in society. Today young people are out of control because they have no boundaries. I can’t stand hearing a spoiled child in a supermarket screaming and the mother saying “ do you want a smack?” Then counting one, two,three. I have never heard a child saying, yes, I want a smack! When I was a child, my mother had an egg slice and I often got it on my bottom along with the words “ honor your mother and your father in the land that the Lord has given you etc” I still think of her when I hear or read those words! A whack never hurt anyone and shows boundaries
But it's only a couple of bio- engineered jabs & a booster for little Johnny, go right ahead, it won't hurt. Where were you "Human Rights Commision" during Convid, you misnamed, self righteous, imposters?
How about Divina concentrates on how to stop the sexualisation of children. Stop child trafficking, child porn, sexual abuse instead of harassing good parents trying to raise decent kids. A typical woke naval gazing academic. Leave parents to discipline their children in a manner that works for them because every child is unique. This line about what other countries are doing is wearing a bit thin.
Smack on, James 🤪 Same discussion went on studying at university. When a child is too young to know what is right and wrong am I supposed to just let them run across the road or hold their hand and smack their bottom if they try to pull away and run in front of a car? One of my children loved 240 volt power points when they were crawling and there was no way we could plug power points in every place we went, so a smack on the hand and that cured them and stopped them from having 240 volts through their little body. Perhaps I have should have tried to reason with a child too young to speak and let them keep touching the power point and then explain to the World health organisation or some other bureaucrat that the child died and I was just following their orders???
there are times when a damned good thrashing is required, and that is not confined to children. there are activists who could benefit from the same action.
Thank you James. I agree with your take, spot on. I do not recall corporal punishment at home from my parents, but they certainly 'manipulated' me by their 'discussions' with me. I might have preferred the rod in retrospect. At school, I was dealt corporal punishment, officially sanctioned by the school, by senior students. I would most assuredly ban that if its still extant.
Again a spot on response James. My wife and I lived in NZ some year back went this issue was raging and the academics used the same angle smacking is violence. Rubbish. Oh and the other sound bite they used was smacking makes kids violent. I have observed, having raised 4 kids and watched there friends the exact opposite is true. This stuff is so infuriating. Oh and good on your Mum 👍😊👍
Like all the comments.
Schools removed the cane for teenagers as the ultimate bad behaviour control. Now teachers are resigning because they can't control their classes and learning is replaced with crowd control.
Our local high school doesn't have school rules but a list of rights. Students who misbehave are suspended and sent home for the day or weeks. This is a reward for bad behaviour. Don't like being here today or being asked or told to do something. Miss behave and get sent home !!
I had some tenants in my home who had just come out from being locked up in juvenile justice. ALL came from broken homes.
Undisciplined and selfish parents produced boys who broke the law by hurting others or destroying property.
Coming from a country in the rest of the world go you good things. The banning of smacking has not at all diminished children being killed by useless parents or more to the point their useless shaggers but it has certainly diminished respect, manners and behaviour in young ones to such an extent as to create a criminal underclass of youth. Keep your smacking and keep the cane at school if you can.
Yet, almost guaranteed, the same people don’t consider it violence to dismember a baby in the womb.
Not sure they’re the best people to be judging how parents discipline their children.
Yes, yes, and yes! I think today’s parents finally react angrily out of frustration, when a quick cool-blooded smack would deal with the situation speedily. Many’s the time my shoe was came off behind a K-mart clothes rack, and done! ✅
When my husband and his brothers were children, my mother-in-law bought something called an 'Aussie Bum Smacker'. She thought it was the best thing since sliced bread!!! It was in the shape of a hand and was designed specifically for the purpose of smacking children! They found it at some kind of novelty/souvenir shop, so there was definitely meant to be a humorous side to it as well! Nevertheless, my mother-in-law did put it to use to discipline her children and apparently it hurt a lot!
Somehow, I don't think you'd be able to buy an 'Aussie Bum Smacker' in the shops these days!
Whatever you do, DON'T smack your son. If you do, he is in grave danger of turning into a strong, responsible, resilient man with leadership skills. And the 'progressive' elites certainly wouldn't want that, would they?! That's because this kind of man is a threat to the 'progressive' elites and gets in the way of their effort to destroy the west.
"The doctor said Australia should ban smacking “to come in line with 65 other countries” where smacking is banned." What line? The firing line for those countries wishing to commit democratic suicide???
Brilliantly expounded as always, James. One of our sons would respond to "if you do that again, you will get a smack on your hand" with a defiant repeat of said behavior. He would receive the hand smack, cry, say 'sorry mummy' and happily continue with life. One of his brothers required a lock on his door so that there was a physical barrier before he could calm down sometimes. The other brother would burst into tears at a disappointed look. They need boundaries, applied according to individual characteristics.
We must assume parents know their kids best, that they love their kids. Anti smacking laws assume the opposite, and also that the State has the right to undermine the role of parents. Any law based upon this should be revoked.
Where do we start??
Absolutely agree!
I agree with God that if we spare the rod we spoil the child, but I also agree that if we train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Parenting requires time, love and patience, but the best advice I can give from my experience is to teach them biblical principles by reading the bible to them daily and encourage them to attend Sunday school, brigades, scripture classes, ISCF, well controlled biblical youth groups, bible studies, prayer meetings, find their friends at same and fellowship with their family on a regular if not daily basis. One problem I have found is that they often correct their bible teachers when they make mistakes e.g. one said he had not sinned since he became a believer, but my son replied, "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us." The teacher was forced to read the bible and correct the wrong teaching they had been given at a Charismatic church.
I spent more time playing with my children and giving them big hugs when I came home from work.
My wife also retired from full time work to be with our children when they were young.
The results are priceless and I may be biased, but I think they are amazing people now.
God rewards those who obey His word.
Another anti Biblical activity. The Bible clearly says, spare the rod and spoil the child . This is exactly what has happened in society. Today young people are out of control because they have no boundaries. I can’t stand hearing a spoiled child in a supermarket screaming and the mother saying “ do you want a smack?” Then counting one, two,three. I have never heard a child saying, yes, I want a smack! When I was a child, my mother had an egg slice and I often got it on my bottom along with the words “ honor your mother and your father in the land that the Lord has given you etc” I still think of her when I hear or read those words! A whack never hurt anyone and shows boundaries
But it's only a couple of bio- engineered jabs & a booster for little Johnny, go right ahead, it won't hurt. Where were you "Human Rights Commision" during Convid, you misnamed, self righteous, imposters?
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