None of this went on when there was corporal punishment in schools?
Don’t make me laugh! :rolleyes:
I can remember those days, and you can’t…. and you’re wrong Comet. It went on then, too.
I know this from firsthand experience of going to a school where corporal punishment was frequently applied for even the most trivial offences, whereas you only have your prejudices and misguided beliefs to fall back on.
What was different about those days was the lack of mass-media to glamourise such activity and make it fashionable and attractive to the dull-witted or, on the other hand, to whip up fear, loathing and hysteria among the timorous and vengeful.
I too grew up in these days, and was subjected to the belt on numerous occasions. I got it for talking in class, being late, for various other minor indiscretions and at one point had my head bashed off a blackboard.
Did it teach me anything? Nope. Did it change my behaviour? No. The thugs and bullies were around then, and corporal punishment made no difference to them. Some even seemed to take a macho delight in taking the whack.
I dont know what the answer is to all this. As a parent I’ve been firm but fair with my own kids, and find that reasonable discussion with them brings better results than any other approach.
I do despair at the ease with which kids can get access to material they should not be able to see, and its not an easy task preventing this.
Television, the internet, mobile phones with internet access, other kids of course, all carry the risk of this sort of access, and you cant just separate them from it, only hope that you can educate them to the risks as best you can. Not as easy as it was in my younger years when there was one telly with 3 channels, parentally controlled.
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