Catturd: I was 5-years-old in 1969 …
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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 :) )
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!
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!
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.
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.