DazzlinDino

First off, I have three children who were all spanked. They are excellent in school and I get hugs regularly. I also am involved in their sports as a coach. Raise your kids however you want, spank...don't spank....it's up to you, and it should be as long as you are actually teaching your children that there are consequences out in the big bad world that will seriously bite them on the butt if they get out of line. Bribery doesn't count....teaching a kid that if you act like an ass long enough you'll get something is only making the situation worse. A commentor earlier talked of being able to use physical abuse on convicts ( I'm not even going to get into the "people" who brought spousal abuse into this, if you don't know the difference between a spank and a beating....DON'T HAVE CHILDREN......) and here is a train of thought for you. If a prison were actually a prison, don't you think that maybe....just maybe.....there wouldn't be such a high rate of second offenders there? I'm not saying hang them from the walls by thumbscrews, but good god people......they have the right to VOTE !!??!! How on earth did THAT happen. We are taking people who have broken the laws of our society and given them the keys to help decide who gets to make the laws. It's no secret the majority of them vote against the Conservatives.........personaly if a CRIMINAL votes against something, chances are it something that should be voted FOR. We are contunously teaching our children today that there are very few conequences for thier actions. Society is quick to blame video games, music, whatever else they can to divert the attention from the fact they don't spend enough time keeping on top of what thier children are doing. I'm 41, and saw Wiley Coyote hit the dirt thousands of times, I've never killed anyone, yet someone somewhere decided it was too violent for kids to watch. My kids play all the latest "evil" video games, and one of them wins awards at school for helping others of all ages. Laws are made to protect society....period. In a democratic society they should be made by the majority. What this country needs are REFERENDUMS. It pisses me off to no end to see an UN-ELECTED body of people who are grandfathered into a position tell me how to live my life. Who the hell are they to make up my mind? I didn't vote for them, neither did any of you. What makes it all that much worse is to see Dion in the news alongside someone with the handle "Liberal Senate Member". If we are to have a senate (get rid of this bunch of useless people), then should'nt they be making thier judgements from a NON-PARTISAN view? Ever notice how all this molly-coddling is just INCREASING the crime rate. That comes from undisciplined children, not from ones who are taught that for every stupid action, there is an equal and opposite reaction from my hand to thier ass.