Why We Must Smack Our Kids

The following statement is not a convenient grab for attention and sensationalist, but: "TODAY'S KIDS ARE OUT OF CONTROL" Empirical studies (yet to be published) have shown that discipline in kids, according to the Child Discipline Index, has dropped a record low of 57.34 down from 114.54 the previous year. Clearly, discipline is at an all time high and I have evidence through an example, none of this 'science' mumbojumbo. An article from the Times Online: Mother’s sting catches son, Cory Ryder, ‘hiring hitman to kill her’ "Like many middle-class, suburban American parents, Shannan and Joey Troiano worried about their son’s behaviour and his bad grades at high school. And like many wayward teenagers, Cory Ryder was grounded for weeks at a time, had a PlayStation confiscated and was banned from watching TV." "Less typically, this 16-year-old was plotting to murder his parents by hiring a hitman, while his mother was organising a sting operation involving a police officer posing as a contract killer...." "Mrs Troiano remembers the night on June 2 when she discovered that the vague threats her son had made were serious. A woman Cory trusted, the mother of one of his friends, took him to a hotel room where he met an undercover police officer pretending to be a hitman...." "He walked out of lessons at Spring Ridge Middle School in Lexington Park, smashed a fire extinguisher case and then broke into the county fairgrounds, where he vandalised property. A judge sentenced him to supervised probation and his parents attended no less than 36 meetings with the authorities about him. But Cory dropped out of school and then, after stealing $45 (£22) from his sister’s piggy bank, had a fight with his mother, which led to him being kicked out of home. He has since told officials that he was upset about being thrown out of the house and that he felt pressured to talk to the man in the hotel. Cory insists that he never intended to have his parents killed and that he wanted to call the police that night in the hotel room. A judge has ruled that he should be tried in the juvenile system, which means that he cannot be held beyond his 21st birthday." Gone are the days when abused/oppressed children sought their retribution by patiently biding their time to sent their folks to a second-rate nursing home. In today's modern society with such gadgetry such as the toaster and mobile phone, children have become impatient and arrogant in their revenge-seeking skills. Is this representative of a greater trend that children today are extremely spoilt? I believe this is not the case and I boil it down to how kids are being educated. Is it not true that every human has the right to freedom? Education is a burden on today's child. The cement walled prison of education institutionalism traps the child's soul at the tender age of 5. It has been statistically proven that 95% of children do NOT want to learn at school. This type of attitude of learning has bred a type of rebel environment within the schools and has only gotten worse ever since schools were created in 1973. Now we have a global crisis of biblical proportions. Kids run rampant with the belief that they rule the streets. Discipline is at an all time low and everybody has got to accept the blame. Corporal punishment is the only solution to this epidemic. Parents and teachers unite, as the we hark back to the days of the belt whipping and cane smacking. Dont like calculus Billy? Then go to the principal's office to get the shit kicked out of you. Has our so-called "civil" society broken down to the point where a child thinks he has the right to hire a hitman to whack his mother? Violence must be met with violence, children must learn that you cannot threaten your parents with murder, blackmail or lawsuit. Billy should tremble with fear when Dad comes home ready for a fresh beating. It is with this call to arms I salute Oprah and her Leadership Academy. Which until now, was enforcing the old-fashioned values of totalitarian rule. There is no room for complacency when it comes to heavy handed policy based on generalisations and hearsay.