Catturd: I was 5-years-old in 1969 …
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Last week on the Internet cover stories; there was one about the most dangerous things we used to do in the 1960's. I couldn't believe it when one of those things was getting your butt whipped. I shook my head thinking; this is what is wrong with society now. This is why we have our jails and prisons filled up. This is why we have smart mouthed kids. I got my butt whipped plenty of times. I think I turned out to be a good person. But these Liberals seem to think that whipping our kids is torture and so now you can't. I say, "Spare the rod and spoil the child." The Liberals wouldn't know what that means.
All the kids in my neighborhood in FL ran behind the mosquito fogger trucks in the 1960's. They burned oil to create smoke that was mixed with the pesticide. It was probably DDT! Our parents were so clueless regarding such things. Later, the truck quit using the oil smoke and just sprayed a mist of pesticide, and us stupid kids STILL ran behind it! (and the truck driver would yell at us to get away; at least he was smart enough to know how stupid it was, unlike our parents :) )
Some of us kids followed the gang. We had no idea we were doing wrong. We did not have any trucks fogging mosquitoes in my town, but if we had, we would have done the same thing.
In south Louisiana, our parents had hand pump mosquito sprayers that they'd spray throughout the house, including bedrooms while we were sleeping in them!
I've always thought the two major errors of the U.S. of the 20th century was racism and environmental ignorance. Both have been addressed, and other than some idiots across various sectors, both have been fixed. Unfortunately, there are many that still use both issues to manipulate people.
Agree 100%!
I would never condone child abuse but there's a huge difference between "discipline" and abuse.
I never got a whoopin I didn't deserve, including the second one when I got home and had to tell my pop what I did!
Some adults don't know where the line is between discipline and abuse, even when they're looking in from the outside, because their own experience colors their opinion. They'll see a 10 year old get punched in the gut, and think there's nothing wrong because their father punched them in the gut too. No, that's some very bad physical abuse. My parents treated me and my sister like shit. I know what abuse is.
He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly
Amen!
Amen. I deserved all mine too. I always hated it when my Mom would say, "Just wait til your Daddy gets home." Whew! You knew you were going to get it. But it taught us never to go back and do that same thing. It taught us 'common sense' which is what the LEFT do NOT have. And yes, there is a difference between a beating and an old fashioned disciplined butt whipping. Amen.
Cracks me up! I remember my Dad (God Rest his beautiful soul) saying "what the he'll are you crying for? I haven't even done anything yet!"
All I could think of to say was "sympathy"?
I never made that colossal mistake again I can tell you that!
Funny. I always cried too. I guess we all knew what was coming. And that's what a butt whipping is all about. SO WE KNOW WHAT IS COMING, WHAT IT FEELS LIKE, AND NEVER TO DO IT AGAIN. Amen. This is what is wrong with Pelosi and the rest of those liberals I do believe.
See, I think the Liberals who started the whole “you can’t spank your child nonsense” knew exactly what would happen if you let young, impressionable kids be “free spirits”. Liberals who grew up with this brainwashing might not understand how they’re really harming their child by not disciplining them, but the ones who started us down the idiotic path of child psychology knew, IMHO. I got plenty of spankings growing up, I deserved every single one of them, and there were some spankings that I didn’t get but I should have.
Amen. I know I needed more than I got. But in the end, I think I'm okay. I'm not a murderer or a thief or a liar. I go to church and believe in God and his Word. I tried to raise my kids that way and to respect others; especially old people whom I taught them to visit and remember on holidays and such. So I believe that scripture of "spare the rod" and what will happen if you don't use it. Amen.
Good kids respond to non-violent forms of discipline, and violence just makes bad kids (psychopathic, personality disordered) worse. What kids usually had more of in the 1960s was parental and family attention and community. Mom was likely home with them, the neighbors' mothers were home, too, so kids could easily play together outside or at each other's homes, families tended to live near each other and had regular get-togethers with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, and everyone wasn't always on the computer or their phone.
That's your opinion. I go along with what the bible says. I do not consider getting your behind whipped as violent; what I consider violent is when it is BEATEN. That's what took punishment from the hands of the parents. I do agree with you on Mom being home and the neighbors mothers plus playing with neighbor friends. I agree with all of the cousins and aunt and such and not having computers or phones to play on. It is a mixture of many things, but a spanking on occasion for something severe that a child did wrong, I disagree. God bless.