
Originally Posted by
xinevirtucio
<ngdako sa bunal...bakus ug uban pa...
Turned out fine. Finished college with no setbacks...took the board exam and passed....no retakes...
Traumatized? I should be in a mental institution right now...with the type of discipline that was implemented in our house...
I excel in what I do. I may not be a board top notcher...but I am not a mediocre person....
discipline...bunal and all...kept me in the top 10 since primary school to highschool.
bunal and all kept me straight during college...and even when I was rebellious it never got out of control...
bunal and all...taught me at an early age that life is unfair...it taught me that people will lie to get you punished...
it taught me that life is not a bed of roses...
bunal and all...showed me the reality...my parents never trapped me in a fairy tale world...
yes I am an only child...but i never grew up spoiled...I had to earn the things that I want to have...
my mother kept a perfect balance between love...and discipline...and I never hated her..for raising her hand at me...
i never hated her..for spanking me with a leather belt...i never hated her for making me kneel for a couple of hours...
i also had to eat sili for talking back to her...
my mother and i had the worst fights...and I never hated her..for having such an iron fist around my neck...true...my mother is a control freak...but i wouldn;t be where I am now if not for the iron fist of hers.
The last time I had myself check..my mental state is perfect...and my confidence...is within the appropriate limits...
in other words...spank accordingly..
leniency....has its limits...look at the kids around you...
do you want your kids..to spend the wee hours of the night drinking...getting drunk with some random guy?
do you want your kids...to spend all your hard earned money on alcohol and cigarettes?
do you want your kids...to come up to you one day and tell you..she's pregnant and she has no idea who the father is..because she was too drunk to even remember?
with the society's influence on children..talking some sense to them..may be an uphill battle...
I am old school..and I believe in corporal punishment...(as long as it is done accordingly)...because that is how I was raised...
responsibility for your actions...should be taught at an early age..
sometimes...children don't listen anymore because that is what they see on TV...that is their influence...
sometimes...you need to be imposing..to emphasize your point..sometimes..being imposing may involve...spanking...
this is my own opinion..because again..that is how I grew up...I may be an only child..but I did not grew up in a bed of roses...
I do not talk about my personal problems with my mother because she already has too many problems to think about...
so..at an age where teenagers are gushing about boys...I learned to handle all the emotions myself...
we never had that S*x talk..parents should give their children..I had to learn it on my own...
sometimes...fear..keeps you straight!