Screaming dad

[moosmom]

I was threatened with a good beating if I didn't stay on the straight and narrow. That was WAY back in the 50's and 60's...LONG before kids could call DCF on their parents. Nowadays you even LOOK at a kid wrong, they can call DCF.

The one thing I've always said was children need to come with instructions. My Dad's philosopy was that when I grew up and had kids of my own, I'd understand WHY he did what he did. Yeah, right.

[Cataholic]

Spanking a young child on the bottom is a far cry from using a whip, grabbing a child by his/her face, and 'beating'. There is discipline and there is abuse. The OP saw it, and made a determination as to what camp she placed it. Frankly, that is good enough for me.

I wouldn't grab my animal by his/her face, I wouldn't take a stick, a whip or any other instrument to my animal's body, WHY is it appropriate to do so to a C.H.I.L.D.

To coin a phrase I heard elsewhere, "When we know better, we do better".

"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". Edmund Burke.