Hypocrisy? Really? I was referring to the anonymity of the internet, and if you look at the top of the page you’ll see I provide my full name instead of some “handle” like “moviedude.”

“and know that fighting isn’t always the right answer. If you can’t evolve then you’ll just fizzle out.”

Funny how you reference evolution but don’t seem to have a grasp of “survival of the fittest.” You’re right, sometimes you don’t have to fight – but quite often you do. Try being a woman and reasoning with a rapist or reasoning with the guy who breaks into your home in the middle of the night.

I will give you props however for using your real name and an actual email address to post your comment.

Vic

I went to one of these highschools in a “bad” neighborhood. It’s weird, you have most of the students that don’t care about their education, they vandalize school property, they fail every class, they don’t even make an attempt to complete the work. Then you have the kids that actually care. Same school, same teachers, different attitudes. Some politicians want to make it seem like to make schools better, they simply need more money. Well, everytime our school spent money on new equipment, fixing damages, etc. the kids that don’t care just destroys it all anyhow. The problem cannot be fixed by throwing our tax dollars at the school, student grades will never improve until the students choose to improve them. The best teacher in the world cannot force a student to care about his/her grades. The problem is with the parenting.

The kids who performed well had parents that pressured them into doing well in school. The ones that didn’t, doesn’t. That’s why different students in the same school with the same funding and the same teachers had very different results.

The government doesn’t put enough emphasis in this and acts like they can simply throw some money at the schools and their hands are clean. When some politicians try to actually raise standards in schools, they are criticized for not giving enough money to them. I think this parenting/education attitude of the people now-a-days is partially responsible for this thing Mr. Eastwood is referring to.

Clint is right about pretty much everything he had to say, and as for what Cali said you dont have to beat your child unconcious or black and blue to punish them, in my day you got your @$$ tanned and you got sent to your room, no TV no video games no toys no nothing, and it worked, it cleaned up my attitude AND I have a very healthy relationship with my parents…

I’m reminded of a time when I was younger, probably 14 or 15, and I was being a jerk to my Mom and pushed her beyond her limits, and she smacked me, right across the face, and then she started crying. Boy I’ll tell you the sting from her hand didnt hurt nearly as bad as seeing how much I hurt her by having to do that, I think all children should get a dose of that.

lol. Over my years I have gotten quite a few mental kicks to the groin … luckily not from my wife though.

She doesn’t know why, but she knows it’ll work because daddy said so and because mommy has used it to great effectiveness in the past. J/K

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People are like dogs. Don’t give them what they need…they’ll act up. Let them get past a certain point, they can’t be helped, and must be put down.

Kirk is far superior to Picard.

Vic

Back on topic. I believe in spanking how ever it should only be on the bottom and never hard. Children tend to act like you spanked them even if you only pretended to. There is never a need to spank them hard and never a need to hit them in the face. I have seen parents smack their child right in the face and it makes me sick.

Being the author of this post you’ll know where I’m coming from, but beyond the age of 2 or so I don’t see the need to hit children to punish them. There are other methods, and IMHO if you start from day one with discipline and consistency it should never come to that.

I’ve been blessed with a great daughter but very early on she had the same meltdowns as other kids. We never layed a hand on her, but used other disciplinary methods – and she’s one of the best behaved kids I know.

Vic

Indeed! Could you believe that on TNG? A friggin’ “counseler” on the bridge? The other thing that drove me nuts about that show (and I’m a huge Trek fan) was Picard’s decision by committee “leadership” style. Give me Kirk any day.

Vic