Nowadays, the government are getting way too much into how families should teach their children how to be. I mean, with our society becoming more “politically correct”, it’s making it to where if you just pinch your child you’ll get in trouble with the law. About a year ago, the state of Massachusetts was trying to make it illegal for parents to spank their children. I don’t know if it went through, but I think that is ridiculous. I know it is illegal in Sweden to spank your child, so I will never be living there. So what is a parent suppose to do if their child is getting in trouble, just talk to them, I mean, probably even yelling at them might constitute to verbal abuse. However, I can understand if there is a child getting abused by their parents, then yes, the law should be called in. But if there is a child that got into some kind of trouble and they need to be disciplined, them saying they’re going to call the police if they get spanked is uncalled for. That’s the problem with what is going on, people are over-exploiting stories about children getting physically abused by their parents. Along with kids hearing this, they think spanking is abuse so they can call the police if that happens to them. Also, there has been talk from so called doctors that say if you spank you’re child, they are more likely to get into more trouble than what they were doing. I don’t think that is true, because I remember when I was child and if I got spanked, I stopped whatever I was doing that caused that to happen. To me, what the kids that do call the police to prevent them from being spanked is going to ruin kids that are actually getting abused, because if they call the police, they are going to think, “Oh, that kid must have gotten in trouble and they’re trying to get out of getting spanked.” Plus, I don’t understand this whole prescription drug use among young kids. It seems as though if a child is hyper, all of a sudden he or she is diagnosed with some disorder, most commonly ADD, or HADD or whatever they call these stupid disorders. I can remember when a child was hyper, it was because they have had too much sugar! So, as a result, the parent will cut off their supply and if they whined, then they would get spanked. Now, kids are given these drugs that pretty much make them either pass out or brain dead zombies. It almost as though the government want children to be addicted to prescription drugs, so when they get older, they just become mindless beings and be much easier to control. It like the government wants to make everyone the same, to think inside the box, and not think for themselves, which the government is starting to target kids at a very young age. I remember I used to take some of those medications, like Zoloft and Serenquil, and I felt worse than how I originally was. Never in my life I felt like a paralyzed person, mentally. I immediately stopped taking the medicine, because it seemed that the doctor wanted me to get hooked on the crap so I can buy more. Then, I realized that the condition I had was just in my mind. It nothing that meditation cannot cure, and along with some great self help books. But I am seeing are country going down a wrong direction on disciplining our future leaders. I am almost scared to think how the future is going to be, considering that these kids whom cry abuse if they’re about to get spanked or drugged up on whatever prescription assigned to them are going to be the people that are going to be taking care of me when I get old. The government does not need to intervene with how parents teach their children. It will only make a bad situation worse.
