# Friends, dopers & parents - lend me your advice.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-parents-lend-me-your-advice/340434>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 17, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-parents-lend-me-your-advice/340434 "2006-01-17T23:28:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-parents-lend-me-your-advice/340434/41 "2006-01-19T16:35:30Z")

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> [@cthiax](#):
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> Cute. Try that in my house and you won’t see the inside of it again, and depending on how you decide to ‘discipline’ her you might be talking to the cops soon.
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> It’s one thing to say ‘Stop pulling my hair, it hurts’ or ‘Please don’t throw that Faberge egg in the air, it will break’ and another to decide ‘I need to spank this child to discipline it’. I know you didn’t advocate spanking, but when you say ‘any adult has the right to discipline a child’ you are not taking into account the fact that only the parents have the right to decide _how_ the child should be disciplined. I can’t allow my daughter to stay alone with certain members of my family, ever, because I know their idea of ‘discipline’ is way too different from mine.

Is there a reason you didn’t quote the rest of my post, which said exactly what yours does?

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> But touching kids as part of discipline is such a…well…touchy subject, that\*\* it shouldn’t be done without clear, prior permission from all the parents involved\*\*. Which this guy doesn’t have. So \*\*his right to discipline is limited to non-controversial means like talking \*\*and time-outs. IMHO, of course.

Cute, indeed.

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**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-parents-lend-me-your-advice/340434/42 "2006-01-19T22:01:01Z")

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> [@WhyNot](#):
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> Is there a reason you didn’t quote the rest of my post, which said exactly what yours does?
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> Cute, indeed.

Yes. Yes there is. It was very early and I was unfocused and irritable. I apologize.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-dopers-parents-lend-me-your-advice/340434/43 "2006-01-19T22:44:31Z")

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> [@cthiax](#):
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> Yes. Yes there is. It was very early and I was unfocused and irritable. I apologize.

Apology accepted. Thanks!

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