Jamie Foxx is Wrong on Beating
Thursday March 3, 2005
So sad that Jamie Foxx missed a golden opportunity to speak out on violence against children. He told a world-wide audience at the 2005 Oscars that his grandmother had been a major influence in his childhood. She whipped him into shape. Instead of giving millions of people the impression that hitting their children is the way to successfully raise a child, he should have made a passionate plea for adults to shape young lives with compassion and patience. More here on why I feel we should ban beating in our schools.
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Comments
What a load of rubbish!!!! Back in the days before governmental “family values” where children are told to “tell the teacher if your mommy or daddy spanks you”, children were respectful, mannerly and not engaging in early sex as a general rule. We knew that if we misbehaved or were rude to authority, authority figures and even the grocery store clerk, there were consequences from the whole community. We now throw baby showers for teenage unwed mothers instead of shaming them and/or shunning them for their early adult behaviours. Parental rights have been usurped in being able to make solid reproductive choices for our minors. A child can go to a doctor for contraception without benefit of the parents knowledge. The parents are treated like lepers for even wanting to know. Many times they are treated like criminals when they question school authorities (who have the right to accompany minor children to ob/gyn without the parents) for allowing their children to be given advise and/or contraception withou parental permission. Then too, children now do not have any fear or reverence for authority because they are of the mistaken belief that the whole world owes them loving patience. I agree we should all try our level best as parents to be patient and kind to our children, but our children also need to know that there are consequences to disobedience. There needs to be a healty fear for authority, so that there is the knowledge not to cross or overstep that authority. We are of the Oprah and Dr. Phil generation where our problems can be solved by someone else’s choices on our behalf, instead of allowing parents to be parents who use corporal punishment or whatever respectful means of punishment he/she sees fit within the confines of the family unit. Our children are not allowed to vote, but can rule the household because we are afraid to take a stand in our own houses. Telling children that their parents cannot spank them is divisive. It tears apart the household. The rule about telling educators about spanking has been taken out of context. This was intended to be exclusively for the use of those children who are being A-B-U-S-E-D!!!! There are clear guidelines within the rules of spanking a child. It must be used only after repeating warnings and other such things like punishment and the all to familiar time out have completely failed (which for some children it always will). The spanking is not be more than a two or three quick and lighthanded swats to the legs, arms or seat area. Never should a child be hit in anger, as even the most gentle person can get carried away. For me, the most terrible type of discipline, is words of hurt. No one should call a child out of his name, curse, swear or denounce the child’s existence. No one ever speaks about that. It hurts one million times more than the hardest blow.