This exactly what's wrong with this generation

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

I raised 5 kids....one day, one decided he didn't want to get an ass whipping...'I'm going to call the cops'.....well I turned around and handed him the phone.....'go ahead at your own peril'....

He didn't....he knew better...

Rock.

[zorgon]

so now what ?

So now us old timers say frig it and find a nice quiet  hideaway to watch the sunsets and drink mint julips

And I think I found mine

[biggles]

I raised 5 kids....one day, one decided he didn't want to get an ass whipping...'I'm going to call the cops'.....well I turned around and handed him the phone.....'go ahead at your own peril'....

He didn't....he knew better...

Rock.

[The Seeker]

So now us old timers say frig it and find a nice quiet  hideaway to watch the sunsets and drink mint julips

And I think I found mine

Mint juleps, iced tea, maybe a few burgers and dogs on the grill 

sounds like a southern thing 

[space otter]

So now us old timers say frig it and find a nice quiet  hideaway to watch the sunsets and drink mint julips

And I think I found mine

PHEW
and here i was thinking my escape to the patio and a beer and the night sky
would set me apart....lol

[biggles]

Sounds alright to me Otter. 

[petrus4]

I raised 5 kids....one day, one decided he didn't want to get an ass whipping

In hindsight, the only reason why I ever objected to my father hitting me, is because I've always believed that I have a much better developed sense of right and wrong than he does.  Dad has done things that I would never dream of doing.  If I had actually looked up to him and he had hit me, I could see myself having accepted that I deserved it.  I usually believed that it was me who should be justified in hitting him, rather than the other way around.

That may have a lot to do with the reason why Millennials didn't want their parents hitting them.  It's possibly not just that social workers have told them to tell someone or call the police; but because they didn't believe that said parents were sufficiently good ethical role models themselves, that they should actually be in that position of authority.  Given what I've seen of the average Boomer parents, the more I think about that, the more sense it starts to make.

Mind you, I know the response to this is going to be that if a child feels that way about their parents, then they should get out of the house, and I agree.

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

There is a difference between 'hitting' and 'spanking'.
I gave them some ass whippings but never hitting!

[micjer]

I had a public school teacher that used to be in the army.  He had a strap in his top drawer of his desk and used it on many students.  (Luckily not me).  Kids were terrified of him.  Actually so were many of the teachers.

Today he would be in jail for abuse.

[Ellirium113]

You just brought up another good point. Back when I was a kid there was a fear of doing wrong because other adults used to give kids heck and parents would side with them for the most part. It was not just the parents that were disciplining. Now no one EXCEPT the parent dare do anything anymore for fear of all the commotion that may ensue.

[ArMaP]

I had a public school teacher that used to be in the army.  He had a strap in his top drawer of his desk and used it on many students.  (Luckily not me).  Kids were terrified of him.  Actually so were many of the teachers.

When I was on primary school all teachers used heavy wooden rulers to apply physical punishments, usually hitting the palms of the student's hands. I remember that I was once the target of that wooden ruler, but I don't remember why, so it wasn't much of an effective tool.