spanking or not?

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Pierce, I think you are grossly underestimating kid's ability to think for themselves. As a teacher for years, there are ages where they will behave erratically because of what their peers are doing (5th - 8th grades estimated), but if their core teachings and personality does not jive with that they will not be part of the central group and will grow out of it. I was part of that and also saw it over-&-over-&-over again. Many times encouraging kids to stop being tag-alongs.
Kids are just small people, they make decisions for the same reasons we do.
IMO, adults are more influenced by group-think than kids ever were.

I know what you are getting at and you are right, but I just don't think it happens that often. There are adults that should be respected when they aren't and I think that is due to the lack of contact between generations. Besides parents and teachers, it is rare, at least from what I've seen, for an adult and kid to have a good relationship with each other and for that adult to teach that kid how the world really does work.

It obviously isn't impossible nowadays for an adult and a kid to have that teacher-pupil-friend relationship but I very rarely see it.