Dirty Mouth-Slapping Granny jailed

[Guest LadyC]

wrap them in fur and send them to a peta-people convention?

[wyguy]

I don't agree with slapping no matter what. Slapping could easily cause hearing lost, which is not justified. Some other forms of discipline would be more prudent.

Forcing them to attend a kung-fu movie marathon while wearing sandwich boards that say, "Bruce Lee was gay?"

[wyguy]

wrap them in fur and send them to a peta-people convention?

[wyguy]

Good grief, UDX! Answer wyguy before he goes over the falls!

Too late! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[MorningGlory]

Good grief, UDX! Answer wyguy before he goes over the falls!

Too late! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[Rick-Parker]

I told my kids (they are adults now) that if they called the cops on me for spanking or disciplining them that when I got out of jail, I would do it to them again.

[~Shalhevet~]

ok. it's not that i like going against the grain. really. but....

i don't agree with grandma. slapping someone in the face is one of the most demeaning things you can do to a person. and an 18 year old is far too old for corporal punishment. a slap in the face of this girl would probably do more harm than good. i agree with udx that there are better ways of disciplining a child--none of which wg has yet mentioned! or probably ever will, beings that he's already gone off the deep end and all.

i don't think grandma should have spent the night in jail, but i also will not give her kudos for demeaning someone. sounds like it was also done in anger, which you probably all know is not the best time to engage in corporal punishment.

I agree. Praise in public. Punish in private. Even though the girl was out of line with her foul mouth, this is embarrassing and not Christ like IMO.

[nebula]

OK - so how would you discipline such a granddaughter?

[humbleseeker]

I am with grandma, forget that touchy fealy 18 is too old, I dont thinnk a person is ever to old for w woopin if they deserve it. It is suppose to be demeaning. Her granddaughter was using foul language in her house over homework, so the girl is probably still a senior in highschool. Charges dropped looks likethe state agreed with grandma. Sometimes it takes physical punishment to get things through someones head.

[Guest LadyC]

I told my kids (they are adults now) that if they called the cops on me for spanking or disciplining them that when I got out of jail, I would do it to them again.

i did one better than that. when rana was 13 and about to get a good spanking, i gave her a choice of who i would call to witness the spanking... a trusted family friend, or the local police.

she chose the family friend. one of the local police officers had already told her (in my presence) that if she'd been his daughter, he'd have already blistered her bottom.

charitow and utx et al,

the girl wasn't a child, so this wasn't a matter of "discipline". it was a matter of granny getting fed up with a disrespectful foul mouthed young lady that had no clue what "lady" means. i seriously doubt that it did more harm than good. i'd be willing to lay odds that the brat watches her mouth around granny from there on out... and that's good. maybe not good enough, because the girl won't change her language when granny isn't around, but at least for a moment or two once in a while, she'll quit dropping F-bombs.

and i know this is not going to go over well with some, but i don't really think it is un-Christ-like. God is the same yesterday, today and forever, and He expected parents to keep their kids in line, even with the use of corporal punishment. (but let's not turn this thread into a spanking debate. granny didn't spank. she popped the girl in the mouth. and rightly so IMO)