Adrian Peterson

[Fortune Cookie]

I'm not a fan of corporal punishment in schools. I would vote against it if given the opportunity. But what I find creepy is when people make creepy innuendo that it is a pleasurable experience enjoyed by the adults who implement it. You can argue against it without the creepy imagination. Why would you go there?

Because nothing would make me want to hit my own child. I can't even fathom what kind of a person would bring a child in an office and hit them on the buttocks. What is going through their head? I think it's creepy and weird.

 

[kidshop]

I'm not a fan of corporal punishment in schools. I would vote against it if given the opportunity. But what I find creepy is when people make creepy innuendo that it is a pleasurable experience enjoyed by the adults who implement it. You can argue against it without the creepy imagination. Why would you go there?

You can opt out, at least in Alabama. We had one year there, and it wasn't a big issue in this school...it was a magnet and you had to have a B in conduct to remain in.

The concept is so foreign to me though. Ok, I'll hit you a few times since you were disrespectful (or whatever).

Weird.

 

[luvsJack]

While I think it is wrong to hit your own child, I think it is beyond creepy that a grown man would want to paddle my son's buttocks.

Doesn't that give you the creeps? What kind of man would actually call a little (or big) boy or girl into his office and spank their bottom?

Oh, for the love of all that is holy! No it doesn't give me the creeps because I don't go around believing that all men are creepers just looking for a kid to touch. And I don't think of a kid's bottom in that manner anyway.

That is just ridiculous.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Oh, for the love of all that is holy! No it doesn't give me the creeps because I don't go around believing that all men are creepers just looking for a kid to touch. And I don't think of a kid's bottom in that manner anyway.

That is just ridiculous.

Exactly.


And the whole point isn't to give some weird enjoyment to the paddler. The point is to let the punished know that actions have consequences.

 

[wdwcoltsfan]

Oh, for the love of all that is holy! No it doesn't give me the creeps because I don't go around believing that all men are creepers just looking for a kid to touch. And I don't think of a kid's bottom in that manner anyway.

That is just ridiculous.

Exactly! Why would anyone jump to the conclusion that the principal was deriving some sort of sick pleasure out of a punishment?

I remember 2 boys in my class getting paddled when I was in elementary school. It wasn't the first choice of punishment. Typically, they stood in the corner, wrote sentences, stayed in from recess and then the parents were called in. Finally, the teacher had reached her limit as nothing was working. Being sent to the principal was the last resort.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Because nothing would make me want to hit my own child. I can't even fathom what kind of a person would bring a child in an office and hit them on the buttocks. What is going through their head? I think it's creepy and weird.

The fact that you think that this is a desired and enjoyable activity is creepy and weird.

There is a reason the buttocks is permitted and it isn't sexual or perverted. Unlike your leap.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Because nothing would make me want to hit my own child. I can't even fathom what kind of a person would bring a child in an office and hit them on the buttocks. What is going through their head? I think it's creepy and weird.

Do you "enjoy" putting your child in timeout?
Do you "enjoy" grounding your child?
Do you "enjoy" scolding your child?
Do you "enjoy" taking your child's things?


I don't. I didn't enjoy paddling them either.

 

[Fortune Cookie]

The fact that you think that this is a desired and enjoyable activity is creepy and weird.

There is a reason the buttocks is permitted and it isn't sexual or perverted. Unlike your leap.

I don't think it is sexual, but I do think it is creepy and weird that a principal would paddle children. He or she certainly should feel backwoods doing such a barbaric thing.

A principal does not have to hit children and should be educated enough to know that hitting does not belong in the school system.

Bend over. I don't have to hit you, but I choose to do so. Creepy.

 

[wilkeliza]

I think Adrian Peterson went way over board but I also strongly believe that instead of jail time he needs to go to counseling and parenting classss (which he seems to be doing since he says he saw a psychiatrist who is teaching him other discipline methods) because we really don't need another group of fatherless kids. Yes he has kids by several different women but the ones he knows about he takes care of, has visitation, and brings them to games when able. I think with the way he is acting it is more important to teach him better methods.

Now onto the descipline debate I was given a whooping as a child and I never once hated my mother for it. We only got pops after all other punishments were exhausted. My mother was a teacher and had all sorts of tools at her disposal. We were put in time out, had things taken away, and were talked to but sometimes we just didn't get it. I was only popped once by my mother and I never hated her for it. She would cry while she did it and always told us exactly why we were getting them. My older brothers got more than I ever did but they were hard headed.

Now my father on the other hand was abusive. My parents were divorced and my father was a master at making sure no one knew what was going on. My father would have never appologized for hitting one of us with his belt buckle. I am 26 and am still waiting for him to own up to it. The fact Adrian even told the boys mother that he is sorry and didn't mean to hit him on his scrotum and that he went too far is the biggest tell for me. Abusive parents don't appologize for anyone. That is why I think he needs some guidance and community service not jail time.

I acctually grew up in the county that Adrian Peterson was charged in. I even think the sheriff who booked him is the same one who came to our house the one time we called the police on my dad. Unfortunately my dad isn't a famous football player so he got of with a nod.

 

[okeydokey]

I never understood how we are OK with telling our kids they couldn't hit their friends in order to get them to do what they wanted, but it is Ok for parents to hit their children in order to get them to do what we wanted. When we condone hitting our children to gain compliance we are teaching our children through our actions that hitting to gain compliance is acceptable.

 

[JanaDee]

Because nothing would make me want to hit my own child. I can't even fathom what kind of a person would bring a child in an office and hit them on the buttocks. What is going through their head? I think it's creepy and weird.

I think it's creepy and weird you're put some sexual connotation on it when there is none.

 

[pigletgirl]

How horrible. I could never hit someone I love. Just the thought of doing so makes me sick. And to do it with a spoon. I could never do that. Ever. I've been told many times that I have great kids too and I've never raised a hand to them. Sorry I think hitting a child with a spoon is barbaric. If we were friends IRL and I knew that I would be calling CFS on you. Sorry.

Growing up I was spanked with a hairbrush twice. There is a time and place for spankings. Do I think it should be used every time for discipline? No. But as a PP stated, there is a time and place for it.

 

[Oreo Cookie]

Nike suspends contract with Peterson.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/17/adrian-peterson-nike-suspended-contract-endorseent-domestic-violence/

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I never understood how we are OK with telling our kids they couldn't hit their friends in order to get them to do what they wanted, but it is Ok for parents to hit their children in order to get them to do what we wanted. When we condone hitting our children to gain compliance we are teaching our children through our actions that hitting to gain compliance is acceptable.

Would you be okay with your (hypothetical) 7 year old deciding that your 4 year old should be deprived of a toy because he misbehaved? I suspect not. But, I bet that wouldn't stop YOU from removing the toy from the 4 year old.

 

[luvsJack]

I don't think it is sexual, but I do think it is creepy and weird that a principal would paddle children. He or she certainly should feel backwoods doing such a barbaric thing.

A principal does not have to hit children and should be educated enough to know that hitting does not belong in the school system.

Bend over. I don't have to hit you, but I choose to do so. Creepy.

1. It is not "backwoods"

2. It is not "barbaric"

3. FYI--principals have been paddling students for as long as there have been schools.

4. Education has nothing to do with it. I work for two PhDs in education. Both spank their children. Had a M.D. tell me TO spank.

5. What do you suggest they do? Time out day after day after day doesn't work. Notes home do not work. Calling the parents does not work. Writing lines does not work. So then the kids is still disrupting the classroom. 3 swift licks, the kid goes back to class and doesn't disrupt again. Guess what worked????

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I never understood how we are OK with telling our kids they couldn't hit their friends in order to get them to do what they wanted, but it is Ok for parents to hit their children in order to get them to do what we wanted. When we condone hitting our children to gain compliance we are teaching our children through our actions that hitting to gain compliance is acceptable.

It is very simple. My kids cannot put their friends into timeouts or ground them or send them to their rooms either or take away their dessert. It is rather weak point to make to say you cannot spank your child because you would have trouble explaining why they can't hit their friends---yet this isn't an issue with other forms of discipline? Parents discipline their children. Children do not discipline their friends. It doesn't matter what the discipline may be.

We never hear--I could never put my child into time out. He may want to put all his friends into time out and what exactly does that teach him of I try to control his behavior with timeouts? That it is okay to put his friends into time out to get what he wants?


Is there a rash epidemic of lectures from peer to peer that I have not heard about?

Heaven forbid we make them do chores. We wouldn't want then to be bossy with their friends. Yeah--well, I will only be your friend if you scrub the toilet first. This way I will make it known that I can control you as my parents have taught me by their dominion over me.

 

[luvsJack]

You can opt out, at least in Alabama. We had one year there, and it wasn't a big issue in this school...it was a magnet and you had to have a B in conduct to remain in.

The concept is so foreign to me though. Ok, I'll hit you a few times since you were disrespectful (or whatever).

Weird.

Its usually well beyond a few disrespectful words to get a kid paddled. They use everything else and its a last resort.

And they don't do it without permission. I have to sign every year.

I also have the right to tell them who can and cannot paddle my child. One year, when my two sons were in 4 and 6th grades there was a teacher that both had from some class they were trying to use to replace art. Anyway, the man was just out and out mean. He carried a paddle around all the time and threatened all the time. So, I told the principal that I did not want that teacher paddling my sons nor did I want that teacher making the determination to paddle my sons. IF the teacher decided either one needed a paddling he could send them to the principal whom I trusted to make the right decision about whether a paddling was warranted.

 

[wvjules]

What he did was NOT a "spanking". Can't we all agree on that atleast?

 

[Art 1]

Thanks for the humorous time I've had reading some of this. It's like free entertainment.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

What he did was NOT a "spanking". Can't we all agree on that atleast?

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure how the conversation warped into what it did. I think we can all agree there's a significant different.