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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adhdferret" data-source="post: 4104577" data-attributes="member: 48008">Does it? Would you rather not know these things happen? Did you ever suffer abuse, neglect? What you suggest as paddling was done at McCloud schools where i went for a time. I didn't talk, for years I didn't speak.  It was seen as a sign of defiance, I had been 1980s beaten before that, much like these kids get today, but from each other. I got so many paddling because I didn't show pain, didn't show emotion,  and they would never call because like you suggest...Make them DO IT! No, they won't, as for book work? Why? So they can be more accustomed to take work home with them as part of the routine? Go to school for hours and hours and then do it more at home? Or is yours a type of punishment?Writing sentences? Reading encyclopedias? I did that too. Those books got me to realize history and that no one, no one back then ever asked what was wrong. Just hit them kids, punish them kids, make them work in those mines, tend to those fields. That is what they did then, and you turned out OK right? I mean you say do it some more! NO! Up till this year, my sons entry into Highschool never once did I pressure him, did I force him to do anything. I got lucky he is alright, I explained to him why, because his mother,  me, we never got to chase lizards, never got to get lost in a corn field, never got to catch crawdads with our best friend. I wanted to be a dad and have him bring me a stick and be so excited because to him it was amazing, so to me it was. Know what he has always said to me? I love you dad, he has NEVER said I hate you, or you are a bad father.</blockquote>

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