joe-90 said:
No - please explain. (He won't).
joe-90 said:
If you've got nothing to say - well drop out of the thread.
Please answer my question. (He won't).
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Softus stop the wind up and keep with the topic.
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Edit:
Okaaaaay then; this was the question:
But how many problem adults did that alleged school create?
...that I asked after joe-90 made the following statement:
joe-90 said:
The thing is that we had NO problem kids in our school - not one.
Poking fun at joe, whilst as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, had a serious side to it.
Assuming, for one dangerous moment, that joe's point was serious, my question, that he has ignored, was meant to imply that it's fatuous to assert that corporal punishment in school is a fair punishment and a valid deterrent simply on the grounds that it made him and his contemporaries behave.
The school environment isn't the only influence on child psychology, but it's widely perceived to be A Good Thing that teachers have had their license to beat pupils summarily revoked.
Someone I know, whose identity I wouldn't wish to be known here, works in a counselling service that specialises in domestic violence, with a lot of clients being children of dysfunctional families; we talk about his/her work a lot, and consequently I have a better-than-the-average lay understanding of the common elements of influence, of a disharmonious family, upon the growing mind.
This is on a tangent from the original post, and in no way intended to impugn the nature of the relationship between toffee and her children, but highly relevant to the general question of how to introduce and teach
self-discipline to children whilst not constraining their personal growth and creating a trauma that far outstrips the problems surrounding bad behaviour and lasts into adult life.