5-Year Old Handcuffed!!!

[Guest Bro David™]

I have 22 inch forearms and 27 inch biceps.

I will rock the world of anyone who ever touches my kids {when I have them }, I will rock their world more than a Mettalica concert ever will.

[Guest Island]

Having seen a few little children go ballistic myself I do not see the harm in handcuffing a child. Its wither that your your forced to have a continued grasp on then which is not efficient in any means, and while the parents might be ultimately to blame the child still must learn one way or the other. Too few children these days go unpunished in a lax society, and undisipled children like these can often be the outcome.

That being said I have three little cousins that were adopted from a drug addict mother, and one of the kids being born addicted to heroin. and there have been many problems that have been overcome. I also have a good friend whos son is mentally imbalanced and once almost burnt the entire house down(age 13) his father almost never disciplines his son and now his son has gotten worse. Though my experiences are few I have seen more good come out of discipline then not. Handcuffing is not even as harsh as a spanking

[Guest Island]

One more note. I don't agree that others should disciplin your childeren without your consent, but handcuffing is a restraint, there is a difference

[Trinity]

I agree

[Ovedya]

One more note.  I don't agree that others should disciplin your childeren without your consent, but handcuffing is a restraint, there is a difference

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"Time out" is a kind of restraint too, however. Remember that we're talking about a 5-year-old here, not a full grown adult, or even a teenager.

[Trinity]

Well let me tell you something LOL My little cousin when he was 5 beat up a 13 yearold AT 5!!! wow yeh i know!

Some 5 yearolds can be stronge!

Oh but the 13 yr old was coming after him and he at 5 beat him up, but he is older haha

5 yearolds can be stonge. Not all 5 year olds are these sweet little tiny kids, some of them are beasts!

Edited April 27, 2005 by Trinity

[other one]

We in our family (wife teaches) hear of kids getting out of hand more and more each year. I can tell you that some of the parents try...... really try to make their kids tow the line. But there are some that simply do not respond and if you beat them you'll end up in jail. There are a number of kids today that are really disturbed mentally and can't controll themselves at times. As they grow older they seem to get a better grip on it, but from 2 to 20 even they struggle and can't help it. I don't know how many times over the past few fears that the wife has come home and told me that the kid that had gone nuts the day before had come to give her a hug and told her just how sorry they were to be such trouble. You can see it coming in their eyes as whatever it is takes over their system.

Several of her past classes of 5 years olds openly pray for each other and it does help at times. I don't know if it is a spiritual problem (some I am pretty sure is) but you just can't tell a parent that their kid is posessed and keep on teaching......

Don't know where it is going to end up. When I was in grade school (36 of us in the first grade) we had one kid that way. It is hard to know if there are more these days for there are so many more kids where we live.

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[Trinity]

Yup i agree!

[Guest Island]

"Time out" is a kind of restraint too, however. Remember that we're talking about a 5-year-old here, not a full grown adult, or even a teenager.

I think this is a special case where the time out is passed ineffective at that point. If perhaps that was used before the situation was escalated maybe. There needed to be some kind of physical restraint. Imagine yourself a cop needing to physically restrain a 5 year old child going ballistic being his fault or not the situation needed to be handled. I don't know if plastic handcuffs were used or not.(which would of been far better), but something physical needed to be done. If you have a better suggestion I'm all game for it

[Trinity]