Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 1/25/2007 9:15:00 PM Author: Mister Preschool Subject: re: spanking I do realize the motivation for spanking is usually not just to be evil and it cannot be compared to many worse forms of abuse, but it is still abusive. Any action to negatively impact a person's life is abusive no matter what age you are and what age your victim is, no matter what lesson you feel it will teach them. If you believe you have the right to spank kids to teach a lesson, you're nothing more than an entry-level version of the guy from the "Saw" movies (but probably not as cool because who is?) We happen to be talking about children, but it's a very simple rule for interacting with everybody: Just don't hit people. If a waiter gets your order wrong... don't hit him! If someone bumps their shopping cart into yours... don't hit them! If you feel you have a reason to hit another person (and you're not a boxer) you are simply ignorant. Unless, of course, the other person is trying to physically hurt you and then you should just unload everything you've got on them. To really need to use violence against a child you better be dealing with The Bad Seed. That said, I need to clarify my first comment for you, Rudy, because it wasn't you who really upset me and I don't want you to think I go nuts on anyone who doesn't feel the way I feel. What I wrote was in response to what I read from you and Deborah but honestly only the line where I clearly addressed you about not feeling abused was what I wanted to say to you. The rest was for Little Debbie. She's the only person I was describing as "scum" and in response to something I read in one of the comments after mine I'd like to just say that I was not name-calling. She's a person who likes to inflict pain on what many would consider her child's private "bathing suit area" or whatever you want to call a bare bum and I simply used an appropriate word to describe her for what she is, a word which is part of the language (though slang, I guess) and not something I just made up. If she objects to what I said she should either reconsider her own sense of self-worth and learn to love herself for what she is or decide to change. I believe in people and I believe she can work towards becoming something else. There's a million things a person can be, but right now she's scum. I don't need to know her to judge her. She hits children. I don't know the BTK guy, either, but I'm not worried about hurting his feelings. Name: Email: Subject

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