“Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child”?
In black culture it is a widely accepted practice to spank children. Heck it’s a cornerstone of rearing. (rearing and spanking…lol…get it…Ba dum Ching. Thank you ladies and gentlemen I’ll be here all week.)
There is always the quote…
“Spare the rod, Spoil the child.”
Now I’m not here to say that spanking children is wrong, but I do wonder sometime do we use that as a first resort or a last when disciplining our children.
I can count the number of times I’ve been spanked in my life, and none of them were really bad. I was just acting up, and it was time to lay down the law. My mother got me early in life so that I would know better later on. Later on, all she had to do was make a little threat and I was back to Angelic Wood.
I can vividly remember going on a church trip to Dallas. As the bus was about to leave Dallas, we decided (me and some other kids) to go exploring around the hotel. Well needless to say when our moms found us it wasn’t pretty. It was like watching Leonidas and the Spartans beat on the Immortals…lol But I didn’t get spanked with them. I thought I had gotten away. Then… I felt this sharp pain in my back. It almost felt like my back had caved in. Well my mother had took her right hand, reached down into the pit of “The Hot Gates”, and brought back a hit that would knock a full grown gorilla to the ground. Needless to say, lesson learned. When it was time to go, it was time to go…lol
On the other side, I have cousins and friends that I feel got spanked daily and they didn’t fair so well in life.
I really liked the show “My Wife and Kids”. You never saw Michael Kyle raise his hands to any of the children, but he got his point across. He used creative strategies to not only punish, but to make his kids understand why he did the things he did. He would get carried away sometimes, but I thought it was an ingenious way to not physically harm his kids.
Here is an interesting article on spanking and how people try reference the bible to say it’s okay.
So my fellow nerds what say you? Is spanking okay? Is it a last resort? Is it a first resort?
BTW if you have never seen Sinbad’s HBO special at morehouse, I implore you to find it. His routine on spanking is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life…lol
-Trillionaire Wood aka Wood the Great
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Spanking is okay, but I don’t believe it should be the primary way of disciplining a child. A lot of parents spank their children out of anger, which is never good for the child or the parent. I believe children should be spanked when they do something that is or could become a danger to themseleves as well as others (running out into the street, stealing, etc). And spanking doesn’t mean beating! You don’t beat a 2 year old! LOL
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That’s real talk. I think that’s what happen in my cousins case. Because it never seemed like their mom was trying to teach them a lesson. It seems like she just got mad and beat them.