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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 14:35:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 14:35:38 1985
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> From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA rduxb!smh
> 
> Ever since Dr. Spock, kids and these kid's kids have had a lot more problems
> with drugs and suicide.  Dr Spock was the man who single handedly dethroaned
> the saying, "spare the rod and spoil the child."  Since then most
> 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 assume from the lack of sideways smiley faces (|-)) that the
last two statements are heartfelt. Boy I am glad I'm not your kid,
if you have one. Your attribution of cause and effect is totally
bogus. If you have a kid someday, try to ignore your preconceptions
and realize that kids are more intelligent than adults and time
spent with parents is what kids nowadays don't get enough of.

-todd jones