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Subject: Re: Plausible punishment spankings Author: Alfred22 (for Gisela) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 07:49:03 04/18/25 Fri In reply to: Gisela 's message, "Re: Plausible punishment spankings" on 02:45:35 04/18/25 Fri I have a good friend on SimilarWorlds and she brags about how what is important to learn is how to avoid a spanking. I think that your reply to Peter proves that you learned how to do it! I don't think things have changed all that much over the years we have both been around. I still see behavior in young persons that would have earned a good one in the old days and the behavior still prompts a parental reaction! My hunch is that now it is just understood that the reaction will play out at home. What do you think? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Plausible punishment spankings Author: Gisela (for Alfred) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:19:23 04/18/25 Fri In my youth, many adults were of the opinion that a child, especially a girl, is always wrong, even if she is right. So it wasn't too clever to point out that the parents were (partly) to blame for an incident. And certainly not when a punishment had already been imposed. Obstinate, stubborn, unreasonable... is probably what my father would have called it. I do indeed think that some things have changed. There are behaviors that are (rightly) no longer punished today, but were in my youth. There are far fewer parents who even consider spanking as a punishment. Statistics show that around 5-10% of families in Switzerland still punish their children with beatings. Our family is still one of them, as my 9 grandchildren could tell you. And finally I doubt that there are actually suitable reactions away from spankings in the other families at home. Many young people today seem to me to be neither educated nor otherwise prepared for life. For God's sake, not everything has to be like it was in the 50s and 60s. But a minimum of discipline and sense of responsibility would do no wrong for neither the parents nor the children. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]