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This thread isn't about whether or not you approve of the practice of physically disciplining your child or not. For the sake of this thread, let's say that you do. Rather, I would like to know if you would be fine with a total stranger doing it in lets say, a movie theater, when you are not around, and the child is being unruly and generally just misbehaving.
I ask this here because there is currently a discussion going on over in True Crime about a man who hits a child in a movie theater for being continuously unruly, even after he was asked to stop. Heres the thread if you're interested:
I was a little surprised at the number of people who would approve over in that thread. I see nothing wrong with giving a kid a good spanking if they act up, but a complete stranger doing it?....... uhhh, NO! But maybe I'm wrong.
So how many of you would be fine with this?
I don't think this responds to the intent of your post but when I was in middle school in the early 1970s, the teachers gave us very painful swats with a wooden paddle when we did something wrong. I'm sure my parents had to sign some sort of release or permission. This was a private school in California.
No...a stranger should NOT even think of touching another persons child....except in life and death situation to get the child out of danger. Certainly not because the child was unruly at a theater..Leave, or get the manager.....Those are the choices..period.
Plain and simple, if a stranger physically disciplined my child when I wasnt around I'd beat their ass.
Family....sure, friends....sure if they were watching my kid and I actually used spanking but a stranger? I would chuck Norris their ass.
I would never touch someone else's child under those circumstances and I DO NOT want anyone treating my children that way. The guy could tell someone that works at the theater to talk to the kid, and if it continues kick him/her out and call the parents.
If this is a babysitter who has the kid for 8 or 9 hours a day, they're certainly going to have to possibly discipline. Do I want my child locked in some room alone or closet in a time out? Absolutely not. Do I want my 2 year old screamed at? No. Do I want my child humiliated socially by being yanked away and made to sit alone being socially ostracized?
The alternatives to spanking are often more cruel. I would want a discussion ahead of time however.
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