16 Apr
1998
16 Apr
'98
12:30 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
Not since the early '70's when the
"hippie" (no offense long hairs) crowd
decided to change the world to a "feels good" world and we started the whole
"time out" concept of discipline. I had no problem with a good whack on the
ass when I was daydreaming - it woke me up. Now it's the concept of "neither
pass or fail as it's bad for the child's self image" crap. Anyone want to
wonder why 14 yr olds are shooting up the schools?
You can go back rather further than that to the permissive teachings of
the late Dr. Spock. At the least, he planted the seeds for a lot of that
latter day psychobabble that precludes reasonable attempts at discipline.
- don