My punishment when I was a teenager was that I had to labor for my dads masonry company. Carrying blocks all day, mixing mortar, stuff like that.
That probably sucked. That probably taught you some good lessons too.
My punishment when I was a teenager was that I had to labor for my dads masonry company. Carrying blocks all day, mixing mortar, stuff like that.
he's only teaching the kid to dislike him imo.
it's a bit ridiculous to me. there are ways to effectively instill discipline that don't involve doing this crap in the middle of the night. not sure i think the guy needs to be arrested tho.
I do not want the .gov telling me how to discipline my child.
It's definitely a tricky thing to approach. Balancing the autonomy of the family with the societal urge to protect children, it's instinctive to want to defer to the parents, and I certainly agree that it is the right call in most cases, and even this case. I'm personally unsure of where the line should fall in terms of the societal need trumping family autonomy, but I think a clearheaded an honest assessment of both a need and benefit related to some government intervention is a step towards locating that line. I feel like this case sort of illustrates that uncomfortable middle ground between the instinctive polarized responses to cases of prosecuted child endangerment.
Before clicking, I was 100% certain this man would be in the Military. One thing that always struck me about going around on a Military base was how awful people were to their kids. It almost became something of a joke with myself and the people I knew... And not even the Military Individual, but often times the Spouse as well. They would treat their children as if they were in the Military as well... I find that reprehensible. Let kids be kids. It's fine to set boundaries and enforce discipline, but something like this is absurd. I hope he gets made an example of...
I have the utmost respect for all Military, past and present... But I don't understand what appears to be an epidemic of child abuse that I've seen reported, in the news or firsthand. Blows my mind.
TS, it reminds me of this story from Hawaii:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/robert-demond-probation_n_5415095.html
That story is even more ridiculous IMO.
This father is likely furious that he's been arrested, and will no doubt get a lot of support, but walking, exhausted, under load, AND ALONE on the side of the street at 3 AM... If this kid had of been hit by the delivery driver who spotted him the vast majority would be willing to come out and say how absolutely stupid this was.
And it was stupid.