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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2735550" data-attributes="member: 14159">By the way, did anybody see the new episode of Boondocks tonight?  They had a short bit at the beginning of the episode about this subject, with a little demon making a mess and screaming at a store, and the mother being helpless to stop him.  Grandpa asks her about it, and she says she doesn't know what to do or how to stop him when he's like this, so he offers to help.  He pulls off his belt, and the kid gets a look of fear in his eye.  He spanks the kid, who stops misbehaving and the customers at the store go from embarrassed/angry at his tirade to smiling that he got disciplined.I think that's part of the whole problem, parents who are too afraid of traumatizing their children that they never discipline them.  They think that if they have to harshly discipline their children when they are very out of line, it's child abuse, or they'll injure their children and be blamed for all their problems one day.  In the end, it produces kids who have no concept of limits or boundaries, because they're never told "No".</blockquote>