Replacing discipline with medicine
I am fighting for the right to raise my 11 year old son. I chose spanking on the rear end rather then medicating him. And the fight to keep him off the wrong pills continues.
The rights to choose?
My son says that the school tells them they must tell a teacher if they get hurt at home. He is 11 years old .. I do NOT blame him for not understanding the difference between a spanking and a beating - I am to blame for calling it a beating myself. Lesson learned, let me remind all parents, never tell a child your going to beat them, call it a love tap - so when they go to school they do not say - I got beat, they will repeat what they hear and say .. I got a love tap! They don’t take your children away from you for giving them love taps.
I realize there are many people out there that do not believe in corporal punishment. Thats fine, then do not spank your child, but do not tell me how to raise mine. I do not come to your house and tell you what to feed your child, how to dress your child and I won’t tell you that your a bad parent for giving him/her enough soda to induce diabetes, nor will I call you a bad parent for allowing your child’s mind to rot with video games or MTV. So if you still feel that you must save the children from butt whoopins .. then you become part of the problem by helping the medication epidemic that is the leading cause of teenage suicide and violence to ever hit the American Nation.
I am a firm believer in good old fashioned but whoopins. I’m no stranger to grandma’s flip flop, flyswatter and the wooden spoon and I survived just fine. I lived through a belt on my rear end a time or two .. and who can forget stripping the switch from the tree. Remember how much thought was put into what type of switch would hurt the least without making mom mad at our flimsy choice that she had to go get her own .. at the same time the anticipation of that whoopin about to come gave time us to think about the behavior that got us in trouble.
Looking back at those times in my childhood that I received corporal punishment, I get very upset. It angers me! Not because I was spanked .. but because our country has taken that right away from our generation. I am SO thankful that my parents cared enough about my actions to do anything about it. I was never beat, I didn’t suffer some “labeled” trauma, and I didn’t have to be medicated. I knew if I screwed up I would get my butt busted and that kept me in line.
Now look around us at the trouble our youth are in today. Medicating hundreds of thousands of young minds is not the answer. Being free of dictating fear to discipline our children without prosecution IS the answer.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe in beatings and I DO believe in positive reinforcement over corporal punishment. But there is a healthy mix with different strategies needed in different situations on a kid by kid basis.
I have some video’s I want to share. My son is in a group home and they are going to medicate him for ADD. There has been NO medical tests, no allergy testing, no heavy metals tests not even a check up. There has been NO supervision of diet, hygiene, exorcise or consumption of caffeinated soda and to me these are the basics .. but hey I am just the bad parent, no one cares what I think.
I would love to hear what you think - Spank or Medicate ?
