Sad.

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Wow. I couldn't imagine my child saying this.

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He's a child abuser. Fire him & ban him for life. Idiot had the world by the balls, grabs a tree branch, & beats the hell out of a 4 year old. Game over!!!!

It is getting very close to the time to start tuning out these assholes.

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Did this 4 year old really say that or did the "tweeter" make that up?

My wife would spake with a brush or something but I would only use my hand. I wanted to feel how hard I was swatting. If it hurt my hand I eased up. You can't do that with a switch.

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Since when do people smile for mugshots?

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Since they know people with nothing better to do will upload them to the internet and show it to everyone.

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Many years ago the subject of corporal punishment came up in a discussion I was having somewhere and one "expert" said that it was OK to spank your child but you should use your bare open palm and never use a paddle or a belt or anything else. Another "expert" said you should never use your hand but always use something like a paddle.

This is an impossible thing to discuss because the anti-spanking crowd thinks that any discipline of a child that involves hitting is pure child abuse and nothing else. A mother swats her kid once on the behind for misbehaving in a store and right away these people say "she beat her kid. If you support this then you support beating kids" Its all or nothing with so many of them. At least those who post opinions on the matter. Most sane people do not support beating kids or child abuse. However, not all sane people equate a spanking with beating kids or child abuse. It is a case of trying to impose your morality onto someone else.

Most of the spanking crowd realizes that there is a difference between discipline and beating. Personally I do not think a swat or two on the behind is inappropriate for certain repetitive bad behavior. I also think what AP did crossed the line, in fact I think it went way over the line. Not because he used a switch but because of the number of hits he made. IMO it was excessive. I think many of the "spanking is OK" crowd would consider this excessive as well. I would not call it child abuse however. I do not think this makes AP a bad father but I do think that if a 4 year old kid is afraid his father will punch him that is not a healthy relationship.

In a perfect world we would not have to spank our children. Then again in a perfect world our children wouldn't do anything that would require such discipline. I do think that most, in fact perhaps the vast majority of children, can be properly disciplined without spanking. I also think that spanking should never be the first form of discipline. I also think that discipline is much to lax nowadays. There is the conundrum. How do you properly discipline a problem child without resorting to violence. Not every passive form of punishment works on every kid. Timeouts work wonders with some kids others do not respond as well. Ideally children, all people actually, should exhibit good behavior because bad behavior is wrong not because they fear the punishment of the bad behavior. The trick is how do we get them to realize the behavior is wrong.

The NFL is on the hot seat with this one. I think AP will get the full brunt of the new policy (6 games at least) simply because of the timing of it. There is simply no way they can justify anything less in light of the way Goodell handled the Ray Rice case. Even if a lot of people think AP was just disciplining his own child.

Spanking is good, in my opinion. Let's face it, some kids NEED that kind of discipline in order to learn that there are consequences to their actions.
You misbehave, you might get spanked.
Just look around you.......almost every time I go to a store, there is some unruly kid screaming or throwing some kind of tantrum. While mom or dad try to "reason" with them, or threaten a "timeout". Yes, some kids can be reasoned with, and don't need a spanking. But I can't even count how many times kids just rule their parents today. If I acted up like these brats, my parents would have taken me out of the store, swatted my behind, and told me that if I did that again I wouldn't be taken to anymore stores.
And you know what? IT WORKED!
I learned to respect authority, to know that if I did something bad, there would be consequences that I would have to pay.
And as I said before, I didn't get NEARLY as many spankings as I should have received.
And I NEVER was beaten. NEVER abused.

There is a HUGE difference between the two.
Looks like Peterson didn't learn that.
Now HE will face the consequences of his actions.

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