I've done all I can for you BL out of the goodness of my heart. But you have crossed the line with me. So I say good byes. I don't give a damn what yall think. The belt paddle which schools still use do it. Yall kids can grow up lighting their selves on fore I'm done with this.
You didn't respond to my statement nor my question. You simply attacked me and my beliefs. That's not how discussions work, and I was perfectly civil to you. I presented a fact based argument and my personal experience. My personal experience is not less valid than yours.
Legally, striking a child is child abuse. You may not see it that way, but the law does.
I ask again - are you okay with hitting your partner if they were to do something dangerous? An elderly person? What about someone with a disability?
And again - why don't you understand the concept that if your child can understand reason, then you can reason with them and if they can't they won't understand why you're hitting them.
If I have managed to prevent dozens upon dozens of children from jumping out of second story windows, strangling eachother, stabbing eachother, smashing eachother with rocks etc etc etc without lifting my finger to hit them, then why is force necessary?
In fact, another scientific fact I will point out to you - children who are beaten actually become more likely to act out in dangerous ways and be maladjusted, which then require their parents who don't understand what to do to hit them more and more, perpetuating the cycle.
You say you turned out okay - but here you are, with (perhaps, I suppose) a substance use disorder, and inflicting the same violence you experienced upon your children.
You say you didn't want him to get hurt. Just so you know, plastic bags shrivel up in fire. They don't go WHOOSH. That's paper. Plastic sorta just turns into a ball. He probably would have dropped it if he were holding it, or watched it just burn up.
Instead, he got hurt by his dad.
Do you know what lesson he's learnt there? Not 'fire is dangerous.'
I'm sorry to tell you, but it's 'my daddy hits me when he's angry and he hurts me'
The saddest thing about this is that your behaviour reminds me of my dad, perpetually in denial that he ever did anything wrong, with a son so fucked up by trauma he is lucky to be alive and probably justifying it too.
And I don't want anything to do with my dad if he doesn't apologise after family therapy. He's gone, out of my life for good, forever. I won't even go see him in his deathbed, I guarantee you that.
And I'm almost 30. I'm not a 'woke kid'