Spanked Children Happier, More Successful

Well how bout that? You mean to tell me that if a child comes to feel that there are undesirable consequences to acting certain ways, he or she may not act that way? Well, glory be, who-da thunk it?

Note that neither this study, the story, nor I is advocating child abuse. What I am saying is that a healthy fear of a spanking is a superb deterrent, one increasingly out of fashion with a generation of parents who wish to relate to their children as simply small adults. They aren't.

HT--Instapundit

When The Gene Pool Is More Like A Birdbath...

You get stories like this: "Drunk 4-year-old dressed in drag steals Christmas presents"



Following in his father's footsteps, indeed.

Tough Love

A police officer in Arkansas allegedly tasered an unruly 10-year old girl at the behest of her mother. I used to get the wooden spoon. How times have changed.