Wait til your Senator gets home!
Saturday’s National Post editorial condemned the Nanny State for increasing interference into traditionally parental jurisdictions - Leave parenting to parents. The unelected, Liberal-dominated Senate wants to ban spanking in Canada, and the motion will now go to the House of Commons for approval.
As Licia Corbella illustrates from personal experience, there are times when a little tap on the hand or rear end is the only method that works:
…We tried reasoning with our little angel. That didn’t work. Then we gave him time outs. Then longer time-outs. We lectured calmly, we screamed loudly, we removed privileges. Nothing worked.
The bites became a reflex. Soon they were leaving significant marks and a very upset victim.
Eventually, we warned the biter that if he bit his (twin) brother again, he would be spanked. We didn’t have to wait long. He bit his brother that same day. I spanked his clothed bottom. And guess what? It worked.
The biting stopped.
Vow broken. Sanity and peace restored. One son protected from bodily harm, another from a very anti-social habit…
Spanking should of course be used as a last resort, or as a way to convey imminent danger when the child is just to young to understand anything else. Here I’m thinking of situations with a hot stove or running out in the street, etc. But spanking should never be done in anger or excess.
What really baffles me though is how the Liberals ignore the imminent reality of a growing fetus, but then suddenly want to take over every aspect of that child’s life as soon as he emerges from his mother’s body.
Why not just grow a population of Test-tube Lemmings and eliminate the middle(wo)man?
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:04 am
How many of us (over aged 40 at least) got a spank for something we did as kids? I don’t mean beatings and abuse, but as Licia Corbella showed above, those swats on the well-padded rear that nipped bad behaviour in the bud. If my Italian-Canadian mom could stifle misbehaviour with “the look” it was because we kids knew she would back it up with a spank when the situation arose.
Now that I’m a 50-somthing mother of three grown children myself, I can reflect back on the few times that I got a spank. My sibling and I realized that we usually deserved it because we were, well, just being absolutey naughty. Did I consider it abuse? Absolutely not. The difference was I knew my parents loved us unconditionally and would have probably lay down their lives for us. We were loved, cherished, but not spoiled. And we knew it.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
What the senators need is a good spanking! IMO
Of course a few of them are probably paying for that service from professionals right now ….
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Joanne ..you have encapsulted very effectively the inane (insane) hypocrisy of the Liberal Party with this:
“What really baffles me though is how the Liberals ignore the imminent reality of a growing fetus, but then suddenly want to take over every aspect of that child’s life as soon as he emerges from his mother’s body.”
They are all about arrogant power, and condescending intrusion.
The CPC must take this and trash it very publically.
Licia Corbella is a breath of fresh air.