BrownArmy
Well-Known Member
Maybe the chicken pecking order isn’t the best model for developing human youth, just saying.
Father of the Year or child abuse?
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Maybe the chicken pecking order isn’t the best model for developing human youth, just saying.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Virtually every species on earth has a type of "pecking order" that they figure out naturally. That's the point.
Why do we expect humans to be any different.
1989
Well-Known Member
Because that instinct is what separates humans from savages.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
We had to be careful with that with the clerks in the G.O back in the 80's.
Females younger than 20 had to be clerks in the hub first to toughen them up.
BrownArmy
Well-Known Member
Because, unlike chickens or apes or dinosaurs, humans employ language.
Game-changer.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Which backs up my thoughts on Union Seniority!
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Much better answer BA.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Ummm many animals have languages. Not as complicated as humans but they most certainly verbally communicate.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
And they have pecking orders just like humans do.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
It's naive to overlook many things that are hard wired in us from many moons ago.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Hell, even the SCOTUS has a pecking order.
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
We do it anyway, regardless of any objection anyone has to it. It's hardwired in. We've simply developed new ways to establish dominance aside from physical. But children don't start out understanding how to assert dominance in any ways other than physical. Education, parenting and discipline are the means by which we civilize the savage beasts we call children.
El Correcto
god is dead
Filming what a great disciplinary you are while putting your kid through a punishment always seemed a bit narcissistic and even sadist in some cases. I would think punishing your kid was a private matter, not a thing to grandstand on for the world to see.
BrownArmy
Well-Known Member
Sure, but my point is that, unlike 'many animals', humans are verbal.
That's what separates us from dogs and frogs and eagles and turkeys.
There is no reason to act like a bully or need to defend yourself from a bully in this day and age.
Like my mom said: "Use your words".
BrownArmy
Well-Known Member
That might be a different thread...
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
No, the rest of us have gone off on a tangent.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
What I find hilarious about this statement is somehow we've raised a generation of kids that apparently think words hurt more than a punch to gut.Sure, but my point is that, unlike 'many animals', humans are verbal.
That's what separates us from dogs and frogs and eagles and turkeys.
There is no reason to act like a bully or need to defend yourself from a bully in this day and age.
Like my mom said: "Use your words".
An overwhelming majority of "bullying" is done using words. Maybe we'd be better off if more of it was done using fists...
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Looks like [COLOR=#5900b3][B]Princess[/B][/COLOR] is the only Child Abuse vote.
RickyBoy is still trying to figure out how to vote.
RickyBoy is still trying to figure out how to vote.
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
How many kids have committed suicide after being verbally assaulted versus physically assaulted? I know I've read stories about the former, but don't remember seeing anything about the latter.
BrownArmy
Well-Known Member
Look man, I hear you.
My kid is six-months old.
Am I going to 'teach' him about my experiences from middle-school in 1986?
Obviously not.
Yes, we should toughen up our kids, to the extent that they don't get bullied.
To me, that's more mental than physical.
YMMV
