Look your opinion is noted as is mine.

We will see the state of Texas opinion soon enough.

That's an oddly specific way of looking at whether life is better now than it used to be. I tend to look at things like quality of life, happiness levels, crime rates, murder rates, and things like that. I don't really care how the economic system swirls around the funds as long as people, on average, are happier.

Curious, when did Adrian Peterson discussion turn into a debate on tax payers?

Peterson may go into politics. He would be a shoe-in for Minority Whip.

Either does ****ing time out or talking to them. Then what do you do? Just let them run wild? or make them sit in the corner for 30 min?

I'll set them up, you knock them out. Well done.

I have never stated "the switch" is the answer. I simply stated that by the standards set here in this thread by many, my dad would be in jail along with my grandfather.

It was stated that today is different. I simply ask is it better than when they were growing up? I fail to see that.

So when you ask about the switch, I say yes, the switch needs to be used more often. Not every case. and not even necessarily the switch itself, just corporal punishment.

But in some areas of this country, the switch is the tool and that is how it has been handed down.

I dont know AP, or really have any reason to like him. I just understand what he was trying to do though I think he handled it poorly and excessively to an extent.

I dont think that level he went overboard equals felony intent. I think he needs a warning and some education.

In other words his intentions weren't completely bad, his execution of those intentions needs work.

That's not hard for reasonable people to understand.

People that are doctors or have high paying jobs pay latino's and black's to raise their kids, who happen to live in the projects. Go figure.

My parents never hit me and I endorse that. If there were any issues to be resolved, mother would start explaining what is and is not acceptable.

Honestly, having to listen to a couple of hours of non-stop talking and the continuous tapping of mother’s index finger on the cherry wood dining room table, was punishment enough.

I would have took the couple of hours of getting chewed out to mean it just delayed my chores. So its a win win. lol

but dammit she would be the mother****ingest MLB ever
who the **** would block Nanna?
and I bet she could stank eye a TE off a crossing route


we need a Nanna to replace DJ

Girls are completely different than boys.

Our daughter is an angel, and listens. Our 2 1/2 year old son needs a pop on his butt when he screws up.

I can't imagine what sick **** would take to lashing their kids.

I have a daughter who is almost 22. I have never spanker her. Different kids need different things.

I was a kid who pushed the limits all the time. She knew how to get what she wanted by being the good kid. Even if at times it was deceiving.

So you would disagree with me when I say that regardless of what the culture is in some regions of the country and among some ethnic groups, people should stop using the switch as a discipline measure?

What do you do if the kid just says "no"? What do you do if they absolutely refuse to do what you say? Put them in time out? What if they refuse? Send them to their room? What if they won't go? What do you do when nothing else works?

I don't have kids. I don't advocate anyone beating their children. I don't even like hearing parents yell at their kids. But I have met kids who were just...monsters. Kids who did whatever they wanted and talked to their parents like they were dogs. I'll never forget the first time I spent the night over at a friends house in the second grade and my friend called his grandmother a ****ing bitch when she tried to get us to go outside.

I know that, ideally, a kid would never get to that point. But life doesn't work like that. Sometimes good people have rotten kids. Sometimes rotten people have great kids.

Do not abuse your kids. But if a smack on the ass is what it takes (when ever everything else has failed!) then so be it.