spanking?..

[Bitsy]

I used to work in a store. There was a woman with a 6-7 year old. He started throwing things around. I said "No-no!!! Don't do that" because his mother was ignoring him. The the kid flipped a finger at me. Can you believe it? His mother did not do anything to correct. I don't understand these new ways of dealing with kids.

It's amazing how often you see things like this these days. This has become one of my biggest pet peeves, children that act like hellions in public and their parents just ignore them. I can't even fathom it, when I was a child I was too afraid of my parents to act up in public, and I wasn't even spanked that often!! Kids are missing that healthy fear of their parents and parents are too afraid to punish their kids.

 

[plantling]

My 6 yr old told my hubby that his friend (classmate) showed him how to shoot the finger! We explained that it was just like using a really bad word and luckily he doesn't know or repeat a lot of the bad words he's heard. We encourage him not to even say words like dumb or stupid. And if it's said on tv he'll say "ooooh, they said a bad word" lol. He's a bit more gentle natured than most boys and more so than our 2 year old son who is very free willed already.

 

[scootrnerd]

I'd tell your kids that they will get one dozen cookies if you get a call from the teacher tonight saying, "Your kid was really annoying today!"

i get enough of those calls without the cookies :wall:

 

[pixl8r]

LOL, reading this thread brought up some interesting memories for me. My very first day in Kindergarten my best friend and I, unknowingly, ditched school. It started me off on my wayward youth. In a nutshell;

We went to class. Did some stuff, then went out for recess. We ended up in one of those large concrete pipe things, in the sand box, playing with matchbox cars. We didn't hear a bell or teacher call us back in to class. So, when we got out of the pipe everyone was gone. I lived just about 100 yards from the school so me and Kenny (my friend) walked to my house, got some Tonka trucks and went back to the empty lot by the school, to play.

My mom still nags me about that, and I'm nearly 40. Perhaps I'll tell my wife I've been naughty.