RE: Do You Need A Spanking?

I could not agree more with controlled freedom about spanking!

I also see nothing wrong with an old fashioned spanking to keep a child in place. This world is changing every day. In my opinion the youth are losing respect for the older generation. Children don’t care to listen to parents or teachers anymore. The older these kids get, they think that they are running the show. I’ll admit some of these older kids don’t need spankings, but rather an old fashion ass whooping.

    I have no children, but parents need to “change” their parenting ways. Letting a child cry their eyes out in public; because you said “NO” is disrespectful and annoying. This is a perfect example of when the child needs a spanking. I was a summer camp counselor and witnessed firsthand bad behavior. For example, the class bully would not listen to a thing I was telling him, he then threw a ball at my face. Stunned and furious the only thing I could do is put him in timeout. To me timeout serves no purpose, the child gets time alone to think about what he or she did-eventually the child will act out again. When parents let kids get away with murder, they are setting them up to fail in life. The child will repeat the bad acts because they know nothing will happen. Mom and dad will not always be there to bail them out when they get in trouble, and when that time comes-it’s time to face reality.

My Government..

    Growing up as a child in elementary school through high school I learned about government. I listened and believed everything my teacher’s had to say about government-without question. I’ll admit at times I was more interested with what vigorous workouts awaited us in football class. Government almost seemed flawless the way my teachers talked about it.

    Today, I can honestly say that government is far from perfect. There are so many issues regarding how money should and should not be spent. Many businesses that were once power houses are declaring bankruptcy, and not to mention how every school district in Texas are on the verge of cutting jobs and preventing the children from succeeding. The government should also do something to protect the Mexico/Texas border. I’m not talking about keeping illegal aliens out-that should be the least of our worries. I’m talking about the drug war going on down south. Honestly it’s only a matter of time before it crosses all of Texas.  As we have seen in the news, El Paso has already felt the impact, and so has Brownsville when one of their special agents was ambushed and murdered in cold blood. It seems like the only thing the government and news have to say is “avoid Mexico at all cost”.

    It also seems like the only thing going up are the gas prices. As a Texan, I know I don’t have it as bad as California and Miami already paying $5 a gallon. The government should in some way reduce taxes on gas or even tap the oil reserve in my opinion. As a kid I always imagined we would already have flying cars by now, instead it looks like bicycles or tiny smart cars.

  I’m not sure where we are headed to in the future; I hope things turn around for the better. It’s amusing hearing talks about the world ending in 2012, for some the world is already ending; take the poor people in Japan earthquake. I hope the government and president can dig this country out of the hole we are in before the transformers invade earth!