Adults are said to be afraid of teenagers.Time for a sponsored a "clip a kid around the ear" day?Discuss.

Answer 1

Yeah - it's about time we showed them who's boss around here!

Answer 2

Define clip. I think a good clop to the chops would help a lot of kids! I also think consequences for their actions from age 2 on would help a lot. I live in the south USA, don't know if this is everywhere or not, but down here, antisocial behavior is considered "cute" by most parents. Or, they'll say, 'he's just a child, he'll grow out of it' until they're like 30. BTW, a police officer informed a friend that it was perfectly legal to whip a kid in Texas as long as the blows hit between the waist and the knees and if a belt was used, not to use the buckle end! (That was after his 13-yr old stepdaughter stole a truck, drove over 100 miles to see her 21+ boyfriend, stayed most of a weekend, and drove back, while he was trying to find her...and had a gun in her backpack when they finally got her to the police station!). I understand her mother had a field day!

Answer 3

Unfortunately adults are afraid to challenge the youth of today, just look at all of the grown men who have been murdered or beaten to a pulp because they have stood up to them. I often wonder do these young peoples parents have any idea what their children are up to when they are out. The only clip around the ear these kids need are from their parents. If we were to hit them we would be arrested for assault. There is a total lack of respect discipline should be re-introduced into the schools and at home. I would defy any judge who told me that I could not control my own children. A smack is different to a beating. Most of todays kids need a good smack.Kids rights have gone too far in a way that has taken the adults rights away from us.
Something needs to be done to get our country back on track.

Answer 4

I live in the Philippines, strong family values are important specially respect to parents. That is why the parents are not having a hard time showing their children 'who's the boss' when a certain circumstance needs it, would you believe that even though the children are already parents!

And disciplining children (yup that clip around the ear, like you haven't seen before!) is a common norm, (of course disciplining is different with batterey) once parents hit their child, the child cannot just go to a police to have their parents arrested just because they are discipling their child (i believe there is a country with this law about hurting children) the law and community respects this right or way of raising a child.

I don't want to compare parent-children relationship but if a parent wants their children to know who's the boss it should be shown when the children are still young, where your words would still mean something and it would stay in their minds.

Answer 5

Adults should have no fear of teenagers or anyone else for that matter. The simple and easy way for adults to get on top of any teenage situation is for all the adults to come to the front doors with their arms folded. The women should carry their rolling pins and the men their baseball bats. If twenty, thirty or forty neighbours came out onto the street thus, the teenage problem in their area would disappear in a flash. That's a promise. The one thing teenagers [boys] fear most is a united front presented by adults, it scares them witless.

Answer 6

It's all down to one problem. The fact the police cannot prosecute young people of a certain age. Of course the young people who do this, and they're older siblings know this and encourage them to do things they can't get away with themselves, because of their age.

Giving power to the police to take steps against younger people than is now possible is the simple answer to all these problems. Community work does'nt work, no supervision, tagging does'nt work, they reoffend and do worse next time. Community work and tagging is fine for first and second offences, not for repeaters.

Most of these teenagers have nobody at home after school, their mothers are at work and they're fathers, if they have one, working too. I wonder just how many of these mothers want to work or are forced to work. So much for flexi-time for parents.

This is what happens when the state brings up children, generations of latch key kids and the destruction of the family unit, whatever it's size.

The politician who announced we should close prisons obviously knows nothing about them and is a complete ignoranus.

Answer 7

I find it's less fear of teenagers than fear of the law. I tackled a teenager breaking into my car and was arrested for assaulting a minor. Teens now know their legal rights and when caught get away with a caution. The Police know this and often feel frustrated that they're questionning the same individuals. Until teens develop a healthy fear and respect of the law then we're all buggered. Clip a kid round the ear? It cost me £600 in court!

Answer 8

The kids should have been clipped around the ear 10 years ago and they wouldn't be such shitty teenagers! Adults are afriad of teenagers because they aren't held responsible for anything and always get off scot free.

Answer 9

Its the parents that dont give a f%@k what the teenagers do that deserve a clip round the lug. Face up to it, the kids are so protected it will be another 10 years before anything is done. Political correctness gone wrong again...

Answer 10

Modern parenting is based on the 'noble savage' theory of human psychology ie everyone is born decent, kind and gentle and is only taught to be thuggish and violent by 'society'. Anyone with the most rudimentary knowledge of anthropology and human history knows this is utter b****cks.

In fact we need to teach kids not to follow their inherently selfish nature with strict discipline including, yes, the occasional "clip around the ear" when necessary

Answer 11

I say we form community vigilante groups, the cops are useless. Decend on them in force, take their booze, slap'em around, drag'em home, slap their parents around, vandelize their house and cars, smash their game consoles, steal there stuff. Maybe parents would get the idea to get control of their spawn, because the current system is obviously not working.

Forge close folks:
That's nothing, I got a cricket bat to the head coming out of the pub one night and robbed by two punks. I have a hard head and came to pretty quick, saw one of the little toe rags running down the street, so jumped in my truck and chased him, when he was about to escape over a fence I rammed it knocked him off, collected him and made him take me to his friends place, when we got there the kids dad answered the door, I told him what happened and the kid came out and gave my money back. I went home and parked my truck, I was a bit worked up so walked to the pub up the street. When I got back an hour later, there were six cops with dogs waiting outside my broken down door. I was arrested and spent 19 hours in a cell before even being questioned. To make a long story short, I was charged and convicted of dangerous driving, assault causing harm (even though I never touched the kid, but he got a bruise when he fell off the fence) and criminal damage (even though I went to the business the next day and offered to pay, the cops told them not to give me the quote for repairs). In total I was given 2500 quid in fines, 600 quid to fix my jeep, 1200 quid for a new door(brazilian hardwood, that you can't even get anymore). Those two punks never got charged. My barrister told me that the reason the cops charged me was it was an easy conviction, and it adds to the arrest and conviction stats, that helps to make it look like they're actually fighting crime. What a JOKE!! Cops couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper sack, tossers!!!