Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!mazina From: mazina@pur-ee.UUCP (Der Kaiser) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.legal,net.politics Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools Message-ID: <3295@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 12:50:02 EDT Article-I.D.: pur-ee.3295 Posted: Sun Sep 15 12:50:02 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 05:40:28 EDT Reply-To: mazina@pur-ee.UUCP (Der Kaiser) Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.kids:2007 net.legal:2347 net.politics:11014 In article <273@cylixd.UUCP> charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) writes: >>I'm not sure what to do about >>things like hitting neighborhood kids. Our 2.75 year old has a little >>problem with this. We keep talking to her about it. ("People are not for >>hitting.") >> >> -- David Jacobson > >There is one solution, directly related to the problem. If it hasn't >happened yet, it will. One of the kids she hits is going to hit her >back. She'll then learn *why* people are not for hitting :-). > > charli Hmmm... I always thought that the principle was that hitting others was not a `good` thing to do. (define `good`? naahhh :-) Should the principle read: "Hitting those with the power to hit you back might not be a good thing???????????????????" Thomas Ruschak pur-ee!mazina "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes... " --- W. Shakespeare Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com