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I was never punished physically by my parent's, yet I have as much love and respect for them as anyone could have for their parents, I have a good job, a great house, a wunnerful g/f, no criminal record, I don't take drugs, I rarely drink to excess and I'm not in debt.

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Perhaps, or perhaps their parent's caned them at home ... there's nothing like accidently arguing for the opposition eh? ;)

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And obviously you treated the cases mentioned to prove differently ....

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Bifta....

What would you do if you had a child that kept stealing things ? Lets say that you had tried all the punishments that you could - groundin ect... But nothing at all worked...

What would you do then ?

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"can" cause more trouble, I agree with that at least, but thread isn't about bullying, you should probably start another one detailing the best way's people find of dealing with them from their own personal experience.

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Woah there....I didn't say that you aren't a fine upstanding member of your community and a wonderful human being :Peaceman:

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Stealing as in shoplifting? Presumably they're caught then (and on a regular basis) and there's a chance they'd be offered a place in Borstall (or similar) by the authorities .. I know that'd deter a multitude of kids from persuing crime.

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I very much doubt that was the case...but I like your argument :D

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So you would let your children be taken into a young ofenders institute ??

Thats not a deterent. Children need love, support and dicipline. Not locking up !

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They didn't mention any cases.....



gee....this is getting heated :D

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I'm not saying that you did, I just brought it up as others mentioned that they are in a similar position to me but had experienced corporal punishment, certainly in my case corporal punishment would have been completely unnecessary as the lack of it appeared to do the job just as well.

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If you thought you were going to be locked up in a young offenders institute would you even consider stealing again? I know sure as egg's are oval that I wouldn't. (btw, I'm not inferring that you're a tea leaf btw :D)

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I agree, I'm going to duck out before I offend anyone else.

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People are different. Some kids will naturaly obey their parents and teachers, others will need a system of rewards and punishments. As I said in my original post here, caning should only be used as a very last resort (before expulsion/borstal) and then only to punish dangerous behaviour or perhaps gross property damage.
I am not a member of the the 'flog em' brigade. It's just that you need a last resort otherwise you get the situation (that we have) where the pupil has been expelled from all schools that will take him and a life of uneducated, crime ridden, dole claiming is all that he can look foreward to.

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Great - :rolleyes:

The child gets locked up in a young ofenders institute. There he can learn how to be an even better criminal from the other kids........

Sorry m8 - It does not work - The child will come out of prison worse than he went in.