Should California Make Spanking Illegal?

Can you believe that this country is trying to make spanking illegal? California is trying to pass a law that spanking your child is a criminal act. Are they serious? I guess so because on every news channel this is a hot topic. Whose business is it to interfere with how parents discipline their children? How does a good parent defend themselves against a charge of that nature? Well let's talk about this for a minute. There are many areas that should be considered before such a law should even be bought before legislation.

My mother is a wonderful woman. As a kid I was what you would consider a serious pain in the butt. I was always getting into trouble. Getting into trouble and touching things I wasn't supposed to, got me spanked. I would get spanked where ever I decided to act like a fool at. If the school called and said I was acting up, she my "mother" would come to the school and spank me in front of the whole class. The teachers would thank her and then inform me that I better not make them call her again. Well it happened every now and then but the fact that she disciplined me like that in front of my friends and peers, it made me so mad and eventually I stopped showing my butt in school and in my neighborhood and the spankings stopped.

My dad on the other hand didn't spank me. He had the ability to be able to connect with my chest with a nicely placed blow. I wasn't allowed to cry and I had to stand there with my hand to my side. He never spanked my sister at all. He would just tell her he will spank her and she listens. My mother mainly deals with her. But me, and my brothers had to learn the manly way. And the best and most effective way that I learned was the only thing that made me listen. Not out of fear, but out of embarrassment, was the jab to the chest. Spanking didn't work for me as much as the punch in the chest from my dad did. It's not a hard punch but it's the fact that I got punched in public and had to stand there with my hands at my side and suck it up.

I grew up in a close neighborhood. If you did something you weren't supposed to do, you got spanked and sent home by whichever parent was around at the time. Things sure do change. Now days most parents don't discipline their kids because of fear of child abuse. Having 3 kids of my own, I am known to spank my kids where ever they decide to act up at just like I was disciplined. And you know what? It works. Now like my mother all I have to do is give them the look. All parents know what the look is and it's a great tool to use but it only works if you disciplined your kids early, like the terrible 2 and up stage.

We see young kids on the news or in real life that needed, and still needs to be spanked. The government wants to interfere with parents spanking kids but what about their own local and state personnel that we see either in person or on the news or maybe even just something you read or hear about abusing young kids. Kids being abused by juvenile officers, probation officers, police, foster parents and detention staff are everyday occurrences in America. Abuse of children is a serious issue, but it has nothing to do with parental discipline. Where are the laws that prohibit police brutality? Or some strong punishment laws to protect our kids from sexual predators? Have you ever seen how the police ruff the kids up? I just wonder and imagine in my mind what I would do if I saw this happening to my kids.

It's scary to think what life will be like and what laws we will live by 20 years from now. What will my kids and their kids have to deal with? Things have definitely changed. Kids don't even play any more like it was when I was young. As a kid there was about 15-25 of us playing football, kickball, games like "it" tag, hide and go seek, cops n robbers, knock and run. These games were so fun and now I don't see kids playing anything like that. Now kids can't play knock n run because they might get shot. Back in the early 80's all we had to worry about were getting caught and the people telling our parents?

As a kid I was not as scared of the police or anybody else as much as I was scared of my parents. Now the parents have something to worry about if they want to discipline their kids in California.

What do you think? Should this law be passed? This is something to think about because if it's passed in California then it might be your state next.

Thanks for reading.