They do not realize that yelling at the top of their adult voices, red in the face threatening to belt the living daylights out of a 4’elf is er … in this day and age…kind of …embarrassing?They’ve already got half a dozen abolitionists quietly considering an urgent speed dial to Social Services, the Community Domestic Violence Police Unit. They’ve already got people sneakily photographing their bullying on digi cams and mobile phones from behind stacks in readiness for the court case. The Superette Manager and assistants are anxiously frowning in the direction of the disturbance, plain clothes store personnel are moving into the “zone”.The parent is 100%unaware of this and 100% convinced of their inalienable right to behave like this. That it could possibly upset anyone is beyond their imagination. And if it does then there’s the usual remedy, threats, lying, accusations, manipulation, counter false allegations.
Characteristics of some smacking parents3
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Trouble in the Village 4
There was a long pause between each stroke. Mother using the opportunity to deliver a short lecture,...
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Corporal Punishment An Abuse of Trust17
‘It could be that the injury to the boy was accidental – that a cane stroke intended for the...
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Whole Class Punisment29
You’d be committing career suicide by picking and choosing in those cases. You were legally safe and safe in...
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Did the Cane Hurt as Much as you Thought32
I think that the majority of boys at my school were spanked or slippered or caned at least once,...
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The Changing Way of Schooling3
it’s nonsense to suggest that teachers in the 1960s weren’t interested in hugging a hurt student or comforting them....
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School Corporal Punishment History71
The final night of dancing in 1948 was 5 November and the Finlaysons arranged for it to be a...
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Mrs Hamilton21
The secretary, to my relief and her credit, did not comment. However, it would have been impossible for...
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Old-Fashioned Terms for a Caning6
I also got caned by prefects at Fettes in the 1960s. It has stayed with me and has been...