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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 7892447, member: 100459&quot;]You must be under 30 years old.&nbsp; I am 73, and I am grateful for things my mother did to teach me to be a better person.&nbsp; It is a shame that better parenting is limited by government abuse by their going into homes and accusing parents of child abuse.&nbsp; Even in schools, teachers are limited in what they can do to students that misbehave.&nbsp; My wife taught in public schools for over 30 years.&nbsp; When she started teaching, it was an approved practice of giving licks to kids or sending them home from school.&nbsp; Most children chose the licks instead because they were afraid of what would happen when they got home.&nbsp; The last 10 years of her teaching was terrible.&nbsp; By the way, she taught high school English.&nbsp; The worse that my wife could do would be to send them to an afterschool &quot;time out&quot;.&nbsp; If the children (and I use that term loosely.) were suspended, my wife had to prepare work for them to do at home.&nbsp; She ended up being punished for their behavior because of the amount of work she had to prepare for them and then grade them.&nbsp; When I was in school, if you were suspended, you got a zero for each day you were out of school.&nbsp; It is so bad now that schools have police in schools, but the police are afraid to do anything because of their fear of being charged for abuse.</p><p>Child abuse?&nbsp; Now it is elder abuse by their children.</p><p>Anyway, I am waaaay of topic and I apologize.&nbsp; Not all of us were perfect children growing up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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