MysterionMuffles Posted July 19, 2014 Posted July 19, 2014 My dad posted this meme on Facebook today: And I immediately dismissed it as bullshit because it's quoted by a REVERAND! However, at the bottom left you can see the site to an MD and so my curiousity got the best of me. On the surface, this woman's website looks like it's all about garnering a healthy loving relationship with your children. However, if you read just about any article's first paragraph, you can tell it's really a ruse for self serving parenting as opposed to peaceful parenting. THEN I FIND THIS ARTICLE: Parents, Beware. Spank and You Go to Jail Delaware is bullying parents. Is the first line and already you can tell where this is going... What about Lara, the mother of my patient, eight-year-old Jack? Lara is a single mother and Jack has taken to back talking and swearing. “The only way he stops is by getting a firm swat on the butt,” she recently told me. Time outs, taking toys away, and grounding him don’t work. He’s extraordinarily stubborn. Should Lara go to jail for a year? Should I report her? Red flag 1: single mother. No need to get into detail about that. Red flag 2: Why is Jack back talking? Red flag 3: the ONLY way he stops is giving a swat on the--? Oh the euphenisms. Red flag 4: YES Lara should go to jail, or better yet, burn in hell! No one believes that it’s acceptable to abuse children. But that’s not what the new law in Delaware is about. Parents who abuse children couldn’t care less about the law, and social workers in every state are so overwhelmed trying to punish parents who are really hurting their children that only a tiny fraction of abusers actually go to jail. The point of the law is to allow government officials to send a clear message to parents: You are the bad guys and we know how to parent better than you. Seriously? "No one believes that it's acceptable to abuse women. But that's not what the new law in Delaware is about. Husbands who abuse wives couldn't care less about the law, and social workers in every state are so overwhelmed tryin to punish husbands who are really hurting their wives that only a tiny fraction of abusers actually go to jail. The point of the law is to allow government officials to send a clear message to husbands: you are the bad guys and we know how to husband better than you. Seriously?" Now Delaware is allowing them to extend this twisted mentality to parents of young children and it needs to stop. If they really want to help kids, they should build parents up, not tear them down, because great parenting happens when kids and their parents are brought closer together not driven further apart. And one more minor point. Delaware says that parents should go to jail for spanking their children but not for aborting them. Can you tell me what I’m missing? What's missing is parental moral responsibility. I........can't even continue. If you want to take more cracks at some other passages from this diabolical article, please feel free to do so! I also found this article HILARIOUS: How to Love My Son Without Enabling Him Yes because loving someone enables bad behaviour...hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....I would argue that loving a child would be letting them know if they have any behaviours they need to change or at least examine. This one's about a follower of Meeker's asking advice on her who son ended up in jail, and her response is to ENFORCE MORE AUTHORITY WHEN HE GETS OUT! HAHAHA yes because he's not gonna get enough of that in jail, right? Excuse my cynicism, but this woman's articles piss me off so much. They're all under the guise of promoting happy healthing parental bonds, but are loaded with horrible advice. She's a pediatrician for shit sakes! Pediatricians, of all people, should not be FOR these unhealthy parenting practices.
NGardner Posted July 20, 2014 Posted July 20, 2014 Someones got to graduate at the bottom of the class!
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