Children who act horribly are demons to me. I don’t see them as kids at all, but devils who can do a lot of harm. I don’t play with these kinds of entities, and if they start messing with me, I secretly get them and give them the old “1,2”. I dread seeing them come around–I hate hearing them, and I just wish they would go away and never come back. :mad: Next time I find one of those litte boogers I am going to throw them down a garbage chute, and I hope it breaks their little piggy demon necks. :mad:
Oooh…nice doggy!
No, mommy! I’m sorry we played ball in the house and broke the lamp! Please don’t throw me into the incinerator!
Bad day with your kids?
I can sympathise with Mr Carpenter’s feelings, if not his solution… [sub]well, maybe…[/sub]
Children can be little shits. No doubt about it. I’ll probably get flamed by saying they often think like adults, but it’s true. My stepson Ben will do spiteful things to “punish” me for punishing him. On the way to the playground, he will walk next to me normally. On the way to the babysitter’s house up the street, he will ever so slowly start walking slightly ahead, slide across in front of me, then slow down. The little shit is trying to trip me up as punishment for taking him somewhere he doesn’t want to go (how dare I?), and no, he’s not “only a kid” and “I’m not imagining it”. Kids can be cunning, sly and…
…evil.
I forgot who said this, but I love this quote: “Beat your son daily. If you don’t know why, he will.”
Hello Mr. Udall, how are the romance novels coming?
At the risk of sounding like the big bleeding heart liberal pussy that I am …
What the fuck is wrong with you people?!? “Throw them down a garbage chute and break their demon necks” - “Beat them daily - they’ll know why?” - “Cunning, sly and evil??”
THEY’RE FUCKING CHILDREN!!
They don’t know any better, that’s why adults are around. To let children know what’s ok and what’s not. And I don’t care how many times you’ve seen G. Gordon Liddy speak - beating children is not ok - ever!
Anybody who get’s so worked up over anything a child does “to spite them”, needs to get their head out of their ass and into a psychiatrists office.
[Dennis Leary]
I don’t beat my kids. I find I don’t have to. I find waving the gun around pretty much does the trick.
[/Dennis Leary]
sigh…
God, you couldn’t be more right if I paid you.
[sub]But keep talking in that stern voice and I will hand over my wallet in a New York minute…[/sub]
I’m not entirely sure what that means, but if it makes it easier for you, I can email you my address and you can just send me a cashier’s check.
Hmm. I believe you do have a point. TheLoadedDog, when the child attempted to trip you, do you really think he fully understood that he was being a snotty brat? No, he thinks it’s acceptable or he doesn’t think anything of it all. This is why punishing kids won’t stop repeat occurances of the offense. 
Damn, so much for my theory.
Of course he should be corrected. Corrected, not beaten. There are ways of dealing with children that don’t involve violence.
It is an adults job to make sure children figure out that being snotty brats isn’t good.
I’d like to know how a grown man or woman beating a small child does any good. You may keep him from walking in front of you (oh the egregiousness :rolleyes: ), but more importantly you’re teaching him that hitting other people solves problems.
Not even taking into account that argument - to vent irritation about snotty children by wishing their necks broken is an indication of a few loose wires if you ask me.
Woah, woah, WOAH, guys!. You are reading way too much into this. The OP (I hope) was written in jest, and I responded in kind.
I don’t ever “beat” my stepson. Ever. He may occasionally be the recipient of a mild smack on the bottom, and I will respect your opinion if you never even go as far as that, but that is a debate for another thread. The point I am trying to make is that while there are times when it is of course necessary to cut kids lots of slack because they are indeed “just kids”, there are other times when an intelligent kid can think beyond his age and really get your goat on an adult level. This is the point at which it is hard to defend yourself against well-meaning outsiders who accuse the parent of taking things to heart, and over-reacting. As an example of this distinction, let me illustrate two “crimes” committed by a little kid: 1)writing on the wall in crayon, and 2)the tripping up thing described in my earlier post. Objectively, I would think that the first is a more serious thing. But I would probably punish the child less for that than for the second one. The first was simple, old fashioned naughtiness. I’d give the kid the benefit of the doubt to a certain extent there: maybe he didn’t know it was wrong. But the second? Well, that’s spitefulness, and it shouldn’t be tolerated.
I meant my post. I meant it for demons not real children who just screw up a bit and not maliciously. So far my favorite dream nightmare about them is the part I throw them all down the garbage chute. The rest of them i just try to avoid them. One likes to hang around me where I live, and he is about 7, or 8 or something. His old thug parents got him a large diamond pierced earring. Too bad too. This child speaks in a very nice voice and he is not ignorant. Sometimes I see him doing bad things. I tell him to be careful, so that he doens’t get into trouble. I don’t want to be his keeper. Maybe I should throw his folks down the garbage chute too.