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Exactly. The rest of the UK is nothing like NI, I can understand you thinking there is ****, but many mnay other places in the rest of the UK are far from ****
Exactly. The rest of the UK is nothing like NI, I can understand you thinking there is ****, but many mnay other places in the rest of the UK are far from ****
You have to keep in mind that Owen is the kind of person who would go to somewhere like Oxford and complain that 'everything is too old' and 'the roads are too narrow'.
Why do some people think hitting their kids is the only way to teach them right from wrong?
I don't agree with beating kids, but when I was young I was a little sh*t at times & I would get a smacked bum or on the back of my legs if I was really naughty, as did my parents (well they used to get hit quite hard & had the cane at school) but it did make me behave... I do think some little sh*ts could do with a slap, kids these days do seem to be worse & a large part of that is because parents are too scared to discipline them for fear of being reported to childline/NSPCC...
I don't agree with beating kids, but when I was young I was a little sh*t at times & I would get a smacked bum or on the back of my legs if I was really naughty, as did my parents (well they used to get hit quite hard & had the cane at school) but it did make me behave... I do think some little sh*ts could do with a slap, kids these days do seem to be worse & a large part of that is because parents are too scared to discipline them for fear of being reported to childline/NSPCC...
That's very anecdotal though, and just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for everybody. I have friends who got beat as kids and they ended up being the type to go in and out of jail over petty crimes. People always use the "I got beat as a kid and I turned out fine" argument as evidence, when there's thousands if not millions of people who didn't get a finger laid on them and turned out fine too.
I think in some cases, it teaches kids that violence is OK to get what you want out of someone.
I was quite the brat too, but I can't find any arguments in favour how I'd been better if I've been physically assaulted. Being in the terrible 90's recession in a Helsinki suburb school, violence was all around us anyway. And the teachers didn't do anything about it.
Violence towards children was made illegal in 1984, but it wasn't probably before the very late 90's when anyone took that seriously.
Today the situation is luckily completely different. Violence and bullying are taken a 100 times more seriously than when I was in elementary school.
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