Cruz supports corporal punishment. How 'bout you?

[HankD]

God supports/commands corporal punishment and I follow God.

So did I when we lived in Maine. Someone turned us in to the Child Protection Services.
One of my kids told a school friend that he sometimes had gotten spankings.

Somehow that turned into his friend telling his mother that Johnny got "beatings" at home.

They came to the house looked everybody over and said we had to go through an investigation and take the evidence to court.

Then one of CPS people said "now don't go getting a lawyer".
Guess what? The very next day I got a lawyer.

To make a long story short, after great expense our case never even made it to court.
The final judgment of the social workers - The children are well nourished, socially well balanced,content, happy and with no evidence of abuse.

They checked into everything and everybody - teachers, doctors even our dentist.
We were forced into paying for the medical assessments.

So, be careful unless you have a great deal of money and a good lawyer to defend your family.

I still used corporal punishment at times e.g. One of my boys tried to smoke in one of our barns and accidentally set it on fire.

After all this, I was very careful to follow the Maine State guidelines for the use of corporal punishment on children (e.g. bare hand only on the buttocks), however the allowance withholding method worked so well that it became my first choice.

HankD

 

[Zaac]

I had no idea that beating up an adult for exercising free speech was the same thing as disciplining a child for disobedience. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

I didn't even want to respond because the comparison was just so stupid.

I don't know why he feels the need to "carry on these banal little conversations" before he actually asks what he really wants to ask.

The stuff sounds completely unhinged.

I was eating a chicken sandwich yesterday. Because of Hillary, all the chicken processing plants are now in China. So why can't Donald's ties be made in China? I rang the necks of several chickens when I was a kid. What say you?

 

[Rolfe]

I am thankful that I had a Godly Mother who used corporal punishment. As a child, I needed it...and often. She kept me out of much trouble.

 

[Zaac]

I am thankful that I had a Godly Mother who used corporal punishment. As a child, I needed it...and often. She kept me out of much trouble.

I still remember principals and teachers being able to paddle (in school )which complemented the discipline of the parents. I think the principle of, if I'm gonna be responsible for your kid and with him more during the day than you are, then I should have your okay to discipline them should be common sense. If not, don't leave them with me.

I find disrespectful children to be intolerable and have literally asked parents in stores if they wanted to use my belt.

 

[Salty]

HankD - so you were guilty until proven innocent

 

[HankD]

HankD - so you were guilty until proven innocent

Yes. We had 11 children - all 1 family.

But we did use corporal punishment but not all the time. The law in Maine (at that time) allowed corporal punishment even with an instrument with older children (no bruising) but bare handed spankings of younger kids under 7.
Even at that we mostly used timeouts, extra chores, etc.

By the time each of our kids were around 11 or 12 (pre-adolescent) we used other methods - denial of treats, denial of allowance, extra chore(s) but never denial of love, teens would have extra chores - since we maintained a farm home and had two large gardens, plenty of animals, used wood for heat, other farm chores, etc, there was always plenty to do besides their regular chores.

Our kids never had a problem getting a local job as they were well known in the community as workers.
At blueberry harvest they would made hundreds of dollars raking blueberries some of which they could keep some which we would make them put in a personal savings account for later years or emergencies.

None of our kids turned out bad, our firstborn retired from the Navy as a chief, another son has his own business (exotic foods, mushrooms, sushimi), one of our daughters is an MMA professional champion, when we have a family reunion most of the time they reminisce and tell endless tales about their childhood on the farm - so much for warping their minds.

HankD