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Discipline or too extreme??
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Here's the link to the full site...http://www.douglascountysentinel.com/news/article_cda80846-e52f-11e3-8318-0017a43b2370.html?TNNoMobile
Hmmm, I don't know what to make of this, I'm kinda torn. For the kids size and offense I think that the punishment was a bit severe. No water in the heat of the day and requiring the kid to walk 3 mies in less than 2 hours is kinda a d-bag move. Another side of me thinks that if a father went to the lengths that this one did, with taking him out of public school and homeschooling him, that the kid wasn't exactly an angel. Maybe the father was relating his Military punishments with his son because they worked for him back in the day?
Hmmm, I don't know what to make of this, I'm kinda torn. For the kids size and offense I think that the punishment was a bit severe. No water in the heat of the day and requiring the kid to walk 3 mies in less than 2 hours is kinda a d-bag move. Another side of me thinks that if a father went to the lengths that this one did, with taking him out of public school and homeschooling him, that the kid wasn't exactly an angel. Maybe the father was relating his Military punishments with his son because they worked for him back in the day?
paywall.............but...
walking 3 miles in 2 hours is a very slow almost non-walk.......and 25#'s isn't that heavy.....
walking 3 miles in 2 hours is a very slow almost non-walk.......and 25#'s isn't that heavy.....
I felt the same. Not sure that I agree with having no water but I see the punishment as punishment and not cruelty. We did the same kind of stuff when I was in and I feel it made a huge difference is personal pride and discipline. Maybe strap a camelbak on him and a ruck instead of the rock. That seems more suiting. To me at least. I really think American society and culture has just become soft and too emotionally considerate.
Extremely stupid. Sounds like a father whose idea of discipline includes a healthy measure of his own bruised ego. Ok for military training or conditioning but not for teen behavior modification.
Train up a child in the way they should go, and when they are old they shall *be able to walk far with heavy bricks*
**paraphrased.
**paraphrased.
I would have gladly carried the brick.
Yeah, but you are talking about a kid that is 4' tall and 130#.
This is what is wrong in this country. So many minorities suffer because of the lack of a father figure in the home thanks to Democratic policies (thanks LBJ) and we punish one who stuck around for finding a non violent punishment for his child.
Asian?
