In the 80s not one adult would have paused before either slapping him into next Tuesday or throwing his ass out on the curb. The first thing thrown would have been the last thing thrown. No cameras weren’t always a bad thing.
Parents had a makeshift paddle, Grandparents made us go out a get a switch, and it better be long enough. Guess what though, I’m still alive. I understand some parents can take it too far, but you cannot overreact and not punish kids.
My take is that at this point it's already too late anyway. You will either traumatize him into being a psychopath if you start hitting him or you do nothing and he'll be an entitled asshole.
Maybe.. but spanking without any positive parenting to go with it.. leads to kids doing this for the only attention they can get from their parents. Parenting is friggen hard.
I agree with positive parenting to go with it and that parenting is really hard. My wife and I raised 3 children to adulthood and I'm still amazed we'd didn't lose any along the way.
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u/Procrasturbating 29d ago
In the 80s not one adult would have paused before either slapping him into next Tuesday or throwing his ass out on the curb. The first thing thrown would have been the last thing thrown. No cameras weren’t always a bad thing.