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Hidethe_painHarold

I wouldn't admit to child abuse if i were you

timben

Internet is so predictable. A title with "beating your kid" and you all start arguing about child abuse. Get a life, people!

idilis
timben wrote:

Internet is so predictable. A title with "beating your kid" and you all start arguing about child abuse. Get a life, people!

Like bumping a week old topic

timben

It was on the first page...

idilis
timben wrote:

It was on the first page...

Maybe the internet is not so predictable

timben

Eh. I don't make up the majority.

timben

You run out quickly of glass bottles...

AlCzervik

depends how much you drink.

timben

Who gets it first, the father or the kids? 🤡

DrSpudnik

The child is father to the man.

TheSampson
DrSpudnik wrote:

The child is father to the man.

Yeah, the parents grow with the child

TheSampson

By that I mean their grip strength grows because of how much they’re whipping-

DrSpudnik

It's Zen.

timben

Hardly.🧐

AVRO38fan

1. If you were playing tennis would you hit a 105mph serve to a child? Would you hit a crushing overhead directly at them? I think not.

2. I mostly coached a high school chess club. The day my students beat me was a great day for them, a sacred day, a memorable day, an affirming day, and a day that I felt like my job was well done. Frankly, since I'm not that good anyway, it was not an uncommon occurrence. I would have masters come into the club and play simuls with the students. When, on occasion, the students won, it generated similar feelings of affirmation.

DrSpudnik
AVRO38fan wrote:

1. If you were playing tennis would you hit a 105mph serve to a child? Would you hit a crushing overhead directly at them? I think not.

2. I mostly coached a high school chess club. The day my students beat me was a great day for them, a sacred day, a memorable day, an affirming day, and a day that I felt like my job was well done. Frankly, since I'm not that good anyway, it was not an uncommon occurrence. I would have masters come into the club and play simuls with the students. When, on occasion, the students won, it generated similar feelings of affirmation.

No one is injured by being checkmated.

Imagine the TV show Kung Fu. If the Master allowed the kid to grab the pebbles from his hand just to make him feel good, he never would have accomplished anything but would have thought he was a for real Kung Fu master. He would have been killed in his first fight.

Koolcat77
I agree
SliverWoIf
Beating kids is wrong
AngryPuffer
SilverWolfIsHere wrote:
Beating kids is wrong

why

rooksb4

This is just me, but a victory always seems more enjoyable if I worked hard to get.