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« on: 17 November 2007, 09:45:13 »
There obviously will be exceptions, but poor parenting is probably the reason for the unsocialable behaviour we have now. Coupled with the do-gooder's 'thou must not smack thou child' when they misbehave.
If my dad have told me to stand on a naughty step after I had knowingly and willingly misbehaved, I would have laughed. The fear of a good slap from dad was enough to keep me in check, as I knew he would go through with it. And it would hurt, both physically and ego wise.
How I laughed when school said they were stopping any form of corporal punishment (the PE teachers didn't obey this though!), I could do what I like, and the worse punishment was staying behind for an hour. Except PE, where I was well behaved.
Now I was in Tescos the other day, and some grumpy kid was pushing stuff off the shelves, and the (presumably) mother was giving it all the 'look at me, you'll go to the naughty corner'. In my book, that is bad enough behaviour to warrant physical disipline.
I work in an area of Milton Keynes that suffers from social breakdown, the 15yr old parents have no idea, nor do the 30yr old grandparents. The young kids just run riot, and the teenage ones are anti social and uncontrollable. Some nutter, probably around 15 or so, cam eup to me the other day showing me his stab wounds that he was proud of.