[ SECRET POST #2186 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2186 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[QI]


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[Supernatural]


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04.
[Haven (SyFy)]


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[The Boondocks]


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06.
[Steve Rogers/Tony Stark]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Twilight]


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09.
[Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations]


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[Stephen Colbert and Audra McDonald]


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[Teen Wolf]


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[Calvin & Hobbes]


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[Blue Bloods]


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[BBC Sherlock]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 017 secrets from Secret Submission Post #312.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[truxillogical]

I remember "belt" but not really much about it. When you're a kid, whatever your parents do seems normal (which can certainly be a problem). It wasn't really a thing that happened very often.

As an adult, as I said, I wouldn't be upset at the idea of a swat on the behind (so long as the parent did it when they weren't angry), but belt is something that I would say goes too far and is just unnecessary, unless you're going for scariness. Which you shouldn't.

[diet_poison]

unless you're going for scariness

That's a HUGE part of the reason I'm against all this. Spanking a kid who just tried to run into the street is an effective way to teach them "THIS IS BAD, NEVER DO IT" and for dangerous activities, that's a good thing. However, for other situations that aren't as immediately dire, threatening your kid with physical punishment if they don't do what you want - ESPECIALLY if that punishment has a tangible object associated with it, like a belt - just generates an environment of fear for the kid. Humans naturally recoil from pain. It's not the same as the threat of grounding, writing sentences*, or being given extra chores, all of which my mother employed on me many a time. None of those things generate the basic, instinctual fear response associated with physical pain that corporal punishment does when used routinely. By extension, that can erode the trust between a child and parent. The line between discipline and abuse is veeeery thin when that discipline is physical.

*I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this one so far haha. It's akin to the old-fashioned "writing lines on a chalkboard" thing that never actually happened to me at school, probably because it's not really practical. I got sentences a lot though. My mom would write a line on a piece of lined paper - "I will not talk back to my parents", for example - and make me copy it 25 times (or 50, or 100, depending on how severe the infringement was). I haaaated it. It was definitely a good deterrent.