Children Seen as "Feral" and "Dangerous"...

[BrilloPad]

This is a stupid poll. Children in general are neither good or bad.
There are good children and bad children, and those somewhere in the middle ground - just like most things in life.

You have not met my children have you!

[Rantor]

Which is why the place has gone to the dogs.

When I were a lad you'd only whine about a clip round the ear if it was undeserved, and even then you'd think twice, for fear of getting another one.

So your parents were ok with strangers clouting you

[Purple Dalek]

So your parents were ok with strangers clouting you

If it was deserved, yes.

[tay]

If it was deserved, yes.

And who decides what is deserved?
It is a stupid attitude to give one sector of society the right to beat another sector based purely on age and not on what is right and wrong.

Maybe it is because people like NF are so limp that they need to feel manly by beating on children?

[Rantor]

Then they want to wind their necks in.

I got a clip around the ear from a teacher when I messed around once. I deserved it and it had the desired effect.

I gave a kid around the cuff around the ear when he and his mates were basically having a game of chase around a packed shop on a Saturday morning years ago. It pissed me and a number of other people off, and I couldn't have given a crap about the consequences. It stopped their game and got me a round of applause from the other customers.

If my kid was showing an equal amount of disrespect to other people, he's only got himself to blame if he gets a smack too.

You're talking about 2 very different things there. Getting whacked by a teacher (pretty much par for the course until recently) is not the same as hitting a kid in a shop for running around.

If you think that is ok to hit kids like that then you a spineless moronic twunt.

[BrilloPad]

And who decides what is deserved?
It is a stupid attitude to give one sector of society the right to beat another sector based purely on age and not on what is right and wrong.

Whilst I agree with what you say - alot of people feel (rightly or wrongly) that children have many rights and too few responsibilities.

The vast vast majority of adults want to interact with children in a nice way.

[Moscow Mule]

And who decides what is deserved?
It is a stupid attitude to give one sector of society the right to beat another sector based purely on age and not on what is right and wrong.

Maybe it is because people like NF are so limp that they need to feel manly by beating on children?

When you've finished berating NF, could you get round to answering my question? And you as well Rantor?

Most folk these days are too scared to talk the parents of a mis-behaving child for fear of a broken nose. Even if the parent doesn't look the fighting type, you're still likely to be subjected to some rant about "how I raise my kids is my business".

[DodgyAgent]

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

Doubtfully by Socrates.

Do you have children of your own?

[Purple Dalek]

And who decides what is deserved?
It is a stupid attitude to give one sector of society the right to beat another sector based purely on age and not on what is right and wrong.

Maybe it is because people like NF are so limp that they need to feel manly by beating on children?

'Based purely on age' what a plank, with age comes experience and socialisation, without a peer group to indicate right from wrong in the context of the group, the young fail to learn how society functions.

[tay]

When you've finished berating NF, could you get round to answering my question? And you as well Rantor?

Most folk these days are too scared to talk the parents of a mis-behaving child for fear of a broken nose. Even if the parent doesn't look the fighting type, you're still likely to be subjected to some rant about "how I raise my kids is my business".

I wouldnt mind another adult complaining verbally about my childs behavior in a civil manner, laying hands on them is unacceptable.