Pain, the great teacher

Whatever happened to the old days when you were allowed to force intelligence into teenager’s thick heads with a stick, belt, or other creative means?

People are hard wired to avoid pain. All animals are. Why not use this biological benefit to help stubborn teenagers learn the lessons that are hardest?

Instead we are the ‘sweetness and light’ society that refuses to emotionally ‘harm’ our offspring in any way. Instead of backhanding the stupid out of our children, we take away privileges that we are paying for and dream they get the point.

I think that we are ruining our kids. We are not equipping them for the future and the real world. We are handicapping them by making their lives comfortable. They grow up to think that all the comforts that they have are automatic and a ‘right’.

It comes as no surprise to me that our prisons are full to overflowing. We are teaching children that punishment will not be painful.

They grow up and get into the real world unequipped and needy, then wonder why things never work out for them.

I think the saddest part is that so many of them fail to learn from mistakes.