When is Enough ,Enough?

[Buffalo Bob]

Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins

Bad parenting is a major issue. I work in a high school so I know what you mean. The amount of resources we are spending on social and emotional development increases every year. Ideally I would like to see those resources channeled towards the elementary schools where we can address behavior and societal norms at an early age (a social worker and behavior interventionist at every elementary school) and thus decrease lost time in the classroom due to management issues at the high school level. Ideally parents would be the driving force.

Unfortunately some kids need an ass whipping from time to time, and that is considered child abuse now. I think replacing the belt with pills has led to issues.

I can remember being a kid and the fear of the belt kept me from smoking, petty theft, playing with matches, etc. Where I went to elementary school all the parents in the neighborhood stuck together. Even the ice cream man would rat a kid out. One time a couple friends of mine were trying cigarettes for the first time in a construction project long before they fenced them in.
They were spied a mile away by the guy who drove Helms Bakery truck. That was a long since defunct company that delivered baked goods door to door in SoCal. He ratted one kid out to the parents and he squealed on the other two. They all ended up with sore butts. The fear of that was why I didn't go with them.