Discipline~Has it gone too far in the other direction?

This is a very critical and a contradictory situation faced by the parents. I believe the Governments should reduce the POWER they have currently given the children so that Parents can control their children. They should understand that only when the children are controlled in their young age, they can grow as a good citizen.

Well the people who made the laws that empower kids to call cops on their parents are just from outer space, if you look at them are they credible anough to be called a resposible parent themselves, what positive impact have they made over their family. Here in my country at least we are still proud that moral decadence is not as worse as it is in the so called developed countries. How could you be scared stiff from correcting your kid?!

I think it is definitely getting harder to raise kids. I think the government is getting way too involved in parenting. It's not even just when you spank kids that the government is willing to step in now, either. Some kids try to get their parents in trouble for so many different things. One of my friends got in trouble because his daughter said he wasn't letting her eat, just because he wouldn't give her money every day for school lunches. He made her lunches (just like her siblings!) and sent them to school with her, and she would throw them in the trash on the way to school. Child services actually took the kids all away from him for about a month while they looked into it! I understand that there are plenty of parents who do abuse their kids and/or not take good care of them. But a lot of the parents that get into trouble are doing a good job and trying to take care of them to the best of their abilities.

There are new ways now we can discipline our child without physically hurting them. Like removing their privileges such as watching TV, going to their favorite place to stroll or bike, or decreasing their allowance and so on. i myslef do not want my child to spank unless of course it was too much already, until I can control my patiene I will never spank my child. But when parents discipline their child which leads to physically hurting the child such as bleeding or leading to violent marks that's a diffeent issues and it really calls for government intervention. i think that as parents youknew your child and the kind of discipline your child needs. parenting is really tough especially when it comes to disciplining our child.

Exactly, the kids have taken over public schools as well, i grew up in the 80s too and I remember if you acted up in school, with your parents' permission you could get a paddling by your principal. they sure don't do that anymore. You see all the time on these talk shows where the kids are beating up and cussing out the parents. I wouldn't dare have done that to my mom then nor now. I think parents should be able to discipline their kids the way they want to as long as it's not excessive and over done. Let the punishment fit the crime. It is an issue that is getting worse and out of control. Kids are even deciding whether or not they go to school at all here because a lot of them don't show up. Now what does that say about the future?