Originally Posted by slinky (Post 459646)

Yes I know what you mean about the parenting Spugg but, I think if you have good parenting skill's there is no need for slapping your kids any way!

My mum very rarely had to ever slap us, but I think we were quite well mannered kids. The LOOK she gave us was enough to know we had over stepped the mark :(

And we were taught from a very young age that we ever bring the police to her door and we would have more than the police to worry about!!

As it goes, I don't need to slap my children and they are good mannered kids, and they too know if they ever brought the police to my door, they would be in deep lumber!! None of this " my kids have rights" bull, they get into trouble with the police, they pay the consequences dearly.


I know it's not easy being a parent, but if you start with the right attitude while they are young, then you don't have as much trouble when they get older. Much harder to try and change a teenager that has got away with blue murder all their life :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 459851)

Another incident not far from here. Not the same consequences yet but another example of kids on mob rule :mad:

BBC NEWS | England | Lancashire | Goth couple badly hurt in attack

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 459856)

one or two goths have come to grief down Blackburn also in recent times,i only know a couple myself,but both are lovely people and totally inoffensive,groups who attack innocent people are not "Cool" "HARD" they are just ignorant cowardly scumbags.:(

Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J (Post 459859)

They hard on their own that they dont want to walk around alone in case a dose of payback appears. :D

Originally Posted by BERNADETTE (Post 459861)

that was what I was getting at they would s... theirselves if they were cornered, oh that would be a sight to behold:)

Originally Posted by panther (Post 459896)

since these kids are not old enough to go to a proper prison, then the parents should be punished, they the ones who have brought these kids up, they are the ones who have taught these thugs from right and wrong, so these so called parents should be made to pay the price!!
as someone said on here, its what we would get off our parents that made us behave, corporal punishment should be brought back and borstal reopened!!:mad: then lets see how 'hard' these kids feel!

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 459897)

Whilst agreeing that most of it is down to parenting, it's not 100% always the case of bad parenting. Kids can go off the rails due to peer pressure more than bad parenting.

Originally Posted by davo69 (Post 459902)

well in my experience of life would beg to differ i dont no any kids that have gone so far off the rails when good parenting as been used the only members of my family that have gone of the rails is to of my cousins and that was there mum not giving a dam what they were upto blaming it on being a single parent .what a poor excuse give them love and guidence and morals and they will no right from rong