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Ball And Chain To Force Children To Study
You haven't tried everything to get your kids to study until you've tried the Study Ball. The Study Ball is a 21-pound prison-style device that locks onto your child's leg and only unlocks after a predetermined amount of study time has passed. The homework manacles can't be locked for more than four hours, and come with a safety key. The product website states, "Quite often, students who are having problems concentrating tend to get up every ten minutes to watch TV, talk on the phone, take something out of the fridge, and a long list of other distractions. Were they to dedicate all this wasted time to studying, they would optimise their performance and have more free time available. Study Ball helps you study more and more efficiently." Stop Teasing Your Brother Pepper Spray coming soon.
Utter Bullshit. In you initial post you did not give any evidence and you jumped from a conclusion that was completely unsupported.
In this argument you cite articles that talk of parental abuse â" which is completely different from corporal punishment. I can only assume that you did not read the cited article (that was written in 1969!). It is clear that this article references domestic violence (such as unwarranted assault, cigarette burning, etc...).
You do not make the distinction between well adjusted corporal punishment and abuse and try to use weasel words at every opportunity. You are not interested in discussion or evidence but the promotion of your own viewpoint.
So I assume you beat your child when he or she does poorly at school?
Here you use the word beat to try and suggest that he abuses his children. This is both incredibly dishonest and mischievous. The correct word is spank.
Is this really much worse than the drugs we give them for "ADD"?