A lot of us use the term "beat" and to us, it's synonomous with a "whipping".
But none of us are in this thread seriously advocating beating the hell out of your child with your fists.
What we ARE saying is that whippings keep children in line, and we have our own experiences to think back on.
I wasn't a bad child.....
why not?
because I got whippings when I acted up. The fear of getting whipped kept me from getting out of line too much
if my parents had been talking about, "Neo, you're gonna stand in the corner for 5 minutes if you keep backtalking me"
I'd have been like
which is exactly what most children do.
I live in the hood, and I see the mothers that don't EVER whip their children, and they have some of the most disrespectful spoiled brats that you'll ever see.
If they don't respect their parents, they won't respect ANY authority figure
if you can't respect the one who birthed you and gave you life, nobody else stands a chance with you
but I guess my words don't mean nothing
After all, there were ppl on this site not too long ago making threads about FIGHTING their dads
had me like
if I had EVER raised my hand to either one of my parents (my mama didn't take no stuff either)
I wouldn't be alive right now.
There's a lot of us that heard that saying, "boy I brought you in this world and I'll take you out of it."
and my parents meant it
That's what kept me from acting a fool and getting arrested and doing stupid stuff
cause I had that fear hanging over me of, not "what will the police do"
but "what will my dad do?"