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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools
Message-ID: <775@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 15:24:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.775
Posted: Fri Sep  6 15:24:18 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Sep-85 01:48:24 EDT
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Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
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In article <694@rduxb.UUCP> smh@rduxb.UUCP (henning) writes:
>Ever since Dr. Spock, kids and these kid's kids have had a lot more problems
>with drugs and suicide.

References? Statistics? Naah, too much work...

>everyone has spared the rod and spoiled the child.  I have to laugh when
>people ask a toddler to choose from a menu in a restraunt.  People think
>that the little creatures have intelligence when they are actually brain
>washed from watching TV.


I beleive that you didn't have any intelligence when you were a toddler, you
don't exhibit much now.

There was a study conducted where very young children were presented, at
each meal with a tray of food containing everything from high-protien food
to sugary food. Sometimes the kids would eat the sugary food, and sometimes
they'd eat the nutritious food, but the surprising thing was that over a
period of several days, their diet was balanced.

This is, of course, difficult to implement in a family envioronment where
the adults are interested in eating a variety at each meal, but it does
show evidence that humans have some kind of nutritional instinct.

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal
	Have they not suffered enough?"

from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_