A bullying fine?

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(05-13-2016, 08:54 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Actually kids do respond when you take the leash off and let them figure out for themselves.    Sometimes they flourish and sometimes they don't.... But when they don't they get the chance to pick themselves up and try again.     

It's hard to not want to take the hits for kids.   But your hurting them by always protecting them.   

I see.  Well to be sure your kids figure themselves out I suggest you send them to a shitty and unfunded inner-city school where the chances of them getting any help regarding these issues will be virtually nonexistent.  I have to admit I find it interesting how certain conservatives seem to laud the value of hands-off parenting, learning to take a punch, and fending for yourself and yet condemn the very segments of our society that are raised on a steady diet of "Tough luck kid, life isn't fair, fend for yourself!"

The entire business of social work is built upon society and taxpayers trying to pick up the pieces of the lifestyle unleashed.

Again, to each his own. I personally dealt with bullies by taking a lead pipe from a room under renovation and keeping it under my desk. I don't feel particularly cool that I did that, I don't see it as a situation that built character in me, and I feel like my kids going through the same thing would indicate a certain amount of failure on my part. But who knows. Maybe if you were my ol' man you would have rewarded my weaponry defense with a trip to the cathouse!