Thailand Ends Corporal Punishment, Ushers in New Era for Kids

[connda]

On 3/27/2025 at 7:33 AM, webfact said:

Thailand took a historic step by axing all forms of corporal punishment, carving a brighter future for kids across the nation.

Saying it's ended doesn't end it.  Just saying...

[connda]

23 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

Violence teaches them to use violence and control to keep others in line, instead of talking and teaching other ways. Children who grew up being hit by their parents, and I don't mean an occasional spanking but in the face, using weapons or losing control, are extremely prone to abusing their partners or own children, and the process is repeated in the next generation. Allowing others to hit your child is despicable and cowardly. Stopping it in schools is great, as teachers have no business using force against a child. Stopping it at home is a different thing, and is much harder because parents have also been taught with violence against them. 

 

Children aren't stupid and if you start from birth, can be reasoned with and they'll know who's the boss. If they get out of control you call the police, and that threat, backed up, is usually enough to stop them. Peers teach our kids a lot, and if they see their friends getting away with things from their parents, they will surely try it with you, but again, past history is with them.

 

I rarely hit any of my children, and only a mild slap on the butt, and the only one who disrespected me was my son when he came back from living with his mom primarily for three years, and it took one time restraining him while talking to him to stop it. The others were never a problem with disrespect. They did get in trouble but learned from their mistakes and the ones who have children now do not hit them, and the kids love them and respect them also. Laziness hurts discipline, and discipline doesn't mean abuse. My parents only hit me a couple of times, and I was taught respect for others, animals and property by them, and by them talking.

Getting smacked on the butt at school was a rite of passage for most kids in my generation.  Most of us laughed it off.  It built character.

[KannikaP]

On 3/27/2025 at 10:19 AM, Gottfrid said:

What?! Should they stop teaching children violence in school? Outrageous!!! Never mind, they will still be thought in home!

But will they be thought to spell at home?   555   Isn't English  a bitch!

[fredwiggy]

8 minutes ago, connda said:

Getting smacked on the butt at school was a rite of passage for most kids in my generation.  Most of us laughed it off.  It built character.

Yes, abuse by teachers was legal for a long time, until they figured out other adults shouldn't be hitting our kids, leaving punishment up to the parents, and hoping they understood what discipline was without teaching abuse . It teaches you that hitting solves problems, and that you can control those weaker than you by hitting them. There are better ways that others have used that work. Many children raised in an environment with hitting end up hitting their girlfriends, wives and children because they never learned restraint. Yes, a smack on the butt isn't much, and works with toddlers if they're doing something dangerous to themselves.

[sidneybear]

Thailand will end up like the ghastly western world, where undisciplined children grow up into undisciplined adults.

[watchcat]

On 3/27/2025 at 12:40 AM, hotsun said:

Dont worry. They wont enforce this

I for one hope so .

[sidneybear]

On 3/27/2025 at 6:50 PM, fredwiggy said:

Which is why you see daily cases of kids chasing others 5 against 1 down the street armed with whatever and kicking them after they put him down. This is learned behavior. Either by their parents or the absence of them. There has to be more care for offspring here to have more social services, because generations of parents have learned the same things. Enforcement here is slow, and punishment immediately and firing of any teachers that still use it would help.

This post assumes that woke liberal justice works. One look at the western world proves that it doesn't.

[fredwiggy]

1 hour ago, sidneybear said:

This post assumes that woke liberal justice works. One look at the western world proves that it doesn't.

Woke is an over used word that some put into any conversation, especially when it doesn't belong. The western world does not usually allow corporal punishment in schools. That any country does shows how behind it is.

[sidneybear]

19 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

Woke is an over used word that some put into any conversation, especially when it doesn't belong. The western world does not usually allow corporal punishment in schools. That any country does shows how behind it is.

Woke is an adjective like any other, and controlling the way others speak epitomises the liberal left and its intolerance of criticism. 

 

You woke folk always like to position your ghastly world view as progress, while calling those who point to its obvious and proven failings as 'behind'. Where is this 'progressive' utopia? In the 'progressive' West, we see nothing but decline, societal decay and degeneracy. 'Progress' for its own sake has destroyed the countries we came from, which is probably why we came to Thailand, if we're honest with ourselves. 

[TedG]

 

On 3/27/2025 at 4:00 AM, johnnybangkok said:

Another old man bemoaning the youth of today like all old men throughout history -

 

'"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise." --Socrates

 

 

The statement was attributed to the Greek philosopher Socrates more than 2,000 years ago. A little rebellion from the 1960s youths was thus put in perspective and Socrates was quoted to give hope for the future of civilization.

Except, a little more research found the quote to be bogus.

 

https://www.cjonline.com/story/opinion/columns/2019/10/15/mike-hall-popular-quotes-often-misattributed/2526255007/