[fabsroman]

Skeeter,

How I would have handled your brother's situation is to ask the police officer to put that in writing so that he could show it to the school board and judge when he is fined for not getting his kids to school. Then, I would look up the law on physical punishment, spank my child in front of a video camera the next time he even mentioned what the police officer said, and then deal with the police officer and police department in Court if they ever charged me with anything and then sue each of them civily for false arrest.

It truly bothers the heck out of me when police officers think they know everything. If anything, that police officer should have scared the crap out of the kid seeing as how the kid was out late at night running around.

With that said, LEO's do face some serious issues. Exactly what is considered child abuse and what isn't? Throwing a glass of water on a child in the morning to get them up definitely doesn't qualify. Leaving welts and bruises on a child does. Beatings out of anger qualify too. I believe in spankings and I also believe in punishment. I think a parent needs to be strict from the beginning, be fair with punishment, and carry through with threatened punishment as long as the threatened punishment is legal.


Val,

It isn't that I am up too early, it is just that I get to bed way too late. Hit the sack at 4:00 in the morning last night with a ton of work left to do and got up at 8:30 this morning to be at a client's place only to have him drunk at work. Sad thing is that he owns the business. Thanks for thinking about erasing that sentence, but then I wouldn't have had as much to write about last night.