angry-parentWhen I was little I was smacked when I crossed the line. Over time I learnt what that line was avoided it.

The theory behind the smack is relatively simple yet somehow it’s metamorphed into this sticky debate over child abuse, children’s rights and the softly softly approach.

One academic (who probably doesn’t have kids) even came out today and declared that smacking your kids makes them stupid.

Research revealed it can also lower a child’s IQ, with those smacked up to three times a week having a lower IQ due to psychological stress.

US-based sociologist Professor Murray Straus, who studied the impact of smacking for 40 years, likened the effects of corporal punishment to post-traumatic stress, affecting a child’s mental development


Three times a week? What the hell are you doing the rest of time that you need to smack your kids three times a week?

For us smacking was rare but the message still got across. Three times a week or more? Well of course your child is going to grow up retarded – it’s got nothing to do with post-traumatic stress or some other flavour of the month “illness”.

At three times a week or more YOUR KID IS A FREAKING PUNCHING BAG!

Personally I’m not convinced that smacking has any correlation to a childs IQ. I find it much more believable that there are just stupid kids in the world, much like adults. I mean think about it, if your kid is running around worried about being smacked, clearly they’re not misbehaving and therefore wouldn’t be getting smacked.

To claim kids that are out of control enough to warrant frequent smacking are worried about being punished is a paradox.

The exception to this is of course the parents that do use their kids as punching bags. Whether you support the softly softly approach or some firm discipline I think it’s safe to say both sides agree on sending child abusers to jail.

While not an advocate of smacking, Sydney psychologist Dr Judith Kennedy said parents who gave an occasional tap on the bottom should not fear damaging their child.

“But a child who is suppressed through physical punishment regularly is going to behave differently,” Dr Kennedy said.


Want to know just how differently?

In Muswellbrook (central NSW) children as young as 9 rampage through the streets in broad daylight smashing windows, swearing at shop owners and staging daylight robbery.

This 10-year-old allegedly used a replica pistol to hold up a video store as his 14-year-old accomplice waited outside – their getaway car a scooter.

The boy allegedly threatened to kill the store clerk, 18, if she told anyone.


I can guarantee you this kid has never been smacked in his life.

So, after holding up a store at (toy) gunpoint, what was this kids punishment?

After allegedly making off with a small amount of cash, the boy was caught on a security camera in a shop just 200m away, calmly buying groceries with the money he had stolen.

He and his alleged accomplice were questioned by police, but were released “pending further inquiries”.


Video footage, caught in the act spending the stolen money and they are then released pending further enquires?! Why weren’t they dragged off and the parents interrogated? And what the hell further enquiries did the police have to do – YOU CAUGHT THEM RED HANDED GUYS!

Are the police in Muswellbrook that worried that if they don’t release the kids so that they can just catch them again the next day they’ll be out of a job?

“It’s unbelievable how young these kids are,” Mr Smith said. “I mean, their getaway vehicle was a scooter.” The couple, who also own a nearby newsagency, have been broken into twice in a month and store windows were often smashed.

Gangs of up to 10 children, usually under the age of 16, caused trouble most days.


Clearly none of the parents in this town have ever raised a hand to their children. Fair enough I’m a guy but if a 10 year old dared try and hold me up, toy gun or otherwise I think I’d probably be more at risk of dying of laughter.

Going by the police and parental inaction towards these ratbags I sense that everybody’s hoping that once they turn eighteen they’ll just magically turn into model citizens.

Not going to happen people. Want to know what happens when undisciplined little shits get older?

A 15-YEAR-old boy has been rushed to hospital with a stab wound in the chest after a brawl involving 200 youths in Melbourne’s west.

The clash – mainly involving Asian and Pacific Islander youths, some armed with knives and umbrellas – erupted about 4.15pm (AEST) in a car park at Highpoint, Maribyrnong.


That.

Although islander parents are stereotypically known to heavy with the physical violence clearly even they have gotten lazy. Mind you I feel much more sympathetic towards the parents of these kids, it’s one thing to physically discipline some ten year old country rat then an islander teenager who could crush you with his belly rolls.

As for the asians… you guys really need to get over people sleeping with your women. Seriously, we can’t keep having brawls in Melbourne everytime a non-asian guy sleeps with an asian girl.

I do find it somewhat adorable though that islanders brought umbrellas to fight the asian’s machetes. At least they didn’t get wet.

Getting back on topic if you don’t instill some sense of discipline at a young age your kids soon start running riot in public and before you know it it’s kiddie gang warfare on the streets.

Meanwhile the rest of us have to put up with this stupid shit all because you forgot about the ‘raising your kids’ clause in the baby bonus contract.

It’s time to start beating your kids parents, enough is enough. Time out, ‘if you do that ONE more time no red cordial for you’ hollow threats, confiscating video games, making them eat vegetarian food, having a ‘talk’ with them and other nonsensical hippie parenting garbage does not work!

If I see one more parent lash out with a hollow threat that goes nowhere the next time a child misbehaves I’m going to walk up and slap it across the backside myself.

You can thank me for saving your kid from jail later, (preferably by paying my bail after the police cart me away).



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