Even well meaning, nice, and educated people will be like “it’s okay to spank your kids”, or will give you these wild hypotheticals that, with proper proactive parenting, you’d have less chances of running into it.
I mean politically, the US refused to ratify corporal punishment as bad by the U.N a few years ago. Corporal punishment was still a thing in various school systems in the early aughts. Cops and School security will hurt children. The way we parent is often an expression of our economic background, with people that are better off, being able to have resources for therapy and counseling. Also with the way children were treated as “seen not heard” and discipline was so bad, when I was growing up. It’s pretty wild.
I was in elementary school back in 1980 and I remember our male gym "teacher" grabbing two boys each by their hair and knocking their heads together. Monstrous. Right before having 8 year olds pick teams, which was brutal for the kids picked last. This was in the US, public school in NY.
Even well meaning, nice, and educated people will be like “it’s okay to spank your kids”, or will give you these wild hypotheticals that, with proper proactive parenting, you’d have less chances of running into it.
I mean politically, the US refused to ratify corporal punishment as bad by the U.N a few years ago. Corporal punishment was still a thing in various school systems in the early aughts. Cops and School security will hurt children. The way we parent is often an expression of our economic background, with people that are better off, being able to have resources for therapy and counseling. Also with the way children were treated as “seen not heard” and discipline was so bad, when I was growing up. It’s pretty wild.
I was in elementary school back in 1980 and I remember our male gym "teacher" grabbing two boys each by their hair and knocking their heads together. Monstrous. Right before having 8 year olds pick teams, which was brutal for the kids picked last. This was in the US, public school in NY.