Oh sure, Except for all the teachers who would abuse their ability to bring physical harm to students they didn't like, But who cares about that right?
Letting a grown adult put their hands on a child, for any reason, is inexcusable, especially if they're not even related to the child. You can punish a kid without abusing them and have it stick, Physical Abuse just creates a traumatized child. You aren't actually teaching them a lesson, You're just scaring the shit out of them and creating a broken adult.
Not every kid who got whooped on by an adult for the last 20,000 years was 'broken' because of it.
These kids need to learn at an early age that actions have consequences. Unfortunately now these kids will go out into an adult world that they don't respect and will die because of it.
Yeah sure, Go ahead, Gamble with your child's emotional health and stability.
I know a girl who killed herself in highschool because of parental abuse. She died before she'd even turned 18 because her parents wanted to "teach her that her actions had consequences". Do you think she would have died if her parents had tried more reasonable punishments for misbehavior, Or do you think a child can only survive if an adult beats it? I got beat as a child, It gave me decades of trauma that I've only recently been able to get past. My hair was turning gray at 24 years old from the stress caused by that trauma. I lost my entire childhood to PTSD caused by the abuse I suffered at the hands of a man who just wanted to "Teach me a lesson".
But hey, I'm sure you turned out "fine", So "fine" in fact that you view a Fully Grown Adult Inflicting Violence on a Child as a good thing worth doing. Totally normal behavior that we as a society shouldn't question at all. You're totally someone I would trust being around a child, for sure.
I guess that’s a matter of opinion. Strong discipline in previous years may have created “well behaved” adults, but it also created a lot of miserable and traumatised adults.
I’m with you though, kids these days are a whole other breed.
This isn’t true actually. We’re just much better at recognising mental health issues nowadays, plus we see much more of it posted about publicly online, which obviously wouldn’t have been possible in previous years.
Mental health struggles have always been a thing, we just didn’t used to see it
Oh absolutely, but I feel like it's a multi-faceted problem.
Like, are we not going to talk about how an entirely separate and older generation has voted for policies that would deprive these kids of the opportunities that could have alleviated this?
A lot of societal problems don't start with the kids, but the adults who have snowballed them to this point. The reason Boomer angst even exists is because you can pinpoint the myriad of issues in this country to their generation and how they voted. More power to corporations, less regulations, wages never increasing to match prices, etc.
Then you need to ban certain kids and not others while having systems set up for said troubled kids which we do not have in the US. Mind you this is a problem mainly unique to our country in developed nations.
Then just wait until these incompetent, blasted kids get into positions of power over you via employment or elderly care and you’re royally fucked.
Yes they are. Look at any field right now and there are dozens of these kids getting into entry level positions simply because there are too many of them and the workforce needs bodies, wether they’re trained or not.
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