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Originally posted by jade_dragon
Punk ass parents make punk ass kids. Time out is a joke, if it were not jail would work. People understand pain and loss only. I am not saying you have to beat the child but I know my parent's kicked my ass good for doing things that would wind up with me being bad for society and what can I say, I am a productive member of society who has not made most of the mistakes of kids who had parents who "spared the rod".
I remember I told my mom one time I would call child protective services, she laughed and said she would kick my ass, call them for me, and continue to kick my ass till they got there. Better her than someone out in the streets I thought I could talk to any kind of way, or thinking that authority had no power or right to tell me anything and a cop put a night stick across my skull.
Who here got time outs and turned out as a perfect angel and has no problem with getting along with others in society? Or are the ones who got time outs the ones running around here not taking responsibility for the way they run their business and the way they talk to people? 
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I remember my little girl acting up in the grocery store when she was about 5. I told her that she was going to time out if she kept it up ("time out" in our household means stand in a corner, hands at the side, standing still, until I say you can get out). She said "there's no time out in a grocery store". Well, needless to say, I found a corner in the grocery store and made her stand there for about 5 minutes while shoppers walked by. She still remembers that embarrassing incident and has never been a problem in a public place since then.
I have two kids that are VERY well behaved, and neither one of them has ever even gotten a spanking.
The bottom line is that a parent has the MAKE the rules, then ENFORCE the rules. Too many times I see parents make threats to their kids that are never followed through on. THIS negates the entire disciplinary process and dilutes the parents authority.
However, with this said, that doesn't mean that there aren't times that one has to apply the "spare the rod, spoil the child" theory
