Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings was notified today that he has been suspended without pay for at least the remainder of the 2014 NFL season, and will not be considered for reinstatement before April 15, for violating the NFL Personal Conduct Policy in an incident of abusive discipline that he inflicted on his four-year-old son last May. Peterson pled no contest on November 4 in state court in Montgomery County, Texas to reckless assault of the child.
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my mom beat my tail and my dad never came around. I Love my mom and I hated my dad for years!! #ButbeatingNeverKilledMe
Because it was a whip that broke the back, a learned and passed down behavior, when something is learned it takes twice as long to unlearn and replace the first learned behavior
LOL, I agree Celeste. Yes, a swift crack was warranted every now and then to let them know just in case they got it twisted. I have two young men 28 and 20, thank you Lord. My sentiments exactly. We have options. And as I stated before if there are no others options there is a more serious problem that old school whoopings are not helping.
My children are 34, and 19 years old from the womb I seen to it that they trusted coming to me about anything one of the first things I told them both is “there are no secrets”. And they could express themselves in any manner to give their emotions room to grow, but they knew disrespect was not tolerated, if we learn to talk with our children from the start hiding nothing, if they are old enough to ask I had to be big enough to give them the answer no matter what, many times reminding them, why should you fight a battle in a war I have already won, this cut down on a lot of misbehavior, because believe it or not getting caught or in trouble is a healthy thing, my daughter stole one time at 4 years old when I found the doll I took her back to the store and told the 6 foot 8 inch security GAURD to arrest her…nuff done he played along and it scard the crap out of her…. there are ways, but a swift crack might save a life
Does it still make it right? Our children again are not us. What was done in our past who says is ok to repeat on them? So as adults we cannot think of or come up with anything else in how we discipline our children well, my momma and daddy beat me this way so this has to be the right way and only way. That just makes no sense to me. Why does it have to be a switch that can break their skin?
Thanks Sly likewise. We are all adults who can agree to disagree having a healthy conversation. It opens our eyes, as you have said, to many topics that are Considered taboo to talk about in our race
We had a peach tree in the back yard where I grew up and I use to joke that my mother rode around until she found a good beatin’ tree, those marks on the child look like the marks left after being whooped with the switches from that beatin’ tree
@Shauna Understood, look at his pics though. Yes some kids do bruise easily. Grant it. He has scabs which means he bled. Whether he bled a lot or bled a lil it does not matter. I never said he was a bad parent but as parents we must know when to much is too much. Old school does not mean it is Right. What was good for some is not good for your children. Everybody wants to keep going back in time. There are many screwed up adults walking around because of their past. I can bet on it if someone brought a child home looking like this after receiving this so called “spanking” from someone else would not feel the same way. Respectfully, my opinion
MY FIRST TRIP TO ATLANTA I THOUGHT MY MOTHER KNEW EVERY PERSON IN THE STATE BECAUSE EVERYBODY SPOKE SMILED AND TALKED AND THEIR SPEAKING WAS GENUINE, THAT IS WHERE RACE DOES COME IN WE ARE PRODUCTS OF THE HANDPRINTS THAT FORMED THE ADULTS AND A PEOPLE WE SEE TODAY…OF COURSE BEATING INTO SUBMISSION WAS A LEARNED BEHAVIOR, THAT IS A PART OF THE UNITED STATES HISTORY WHERE PEOPLE OF COLOR WERE BEATEN AND THEN TOLD THAT GOD COMMANDED IT (SPARE THE ROD SPOIL THE CHILD) IN THE SOUTH THOSE THAT REMAINED LEARNED TO STAY TOGETHER BECAUSE THEY KNEW THERE WAS STRENGHT IN THEIR NUMBERS, AND THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD THE STRUGGLE OF THEIR NEIGHBOR…HISTORY IS THE KEY TO THIS CONVERSATION…(I RIGHT IN CAPS AT TIMES, NO ONE BE OFFENDED BY THAT FOLOSHNESS THAT CAPS MEAN YELLING I AM CALM AT THIS MOMENT)
Shauna P I was saying earlier that this is a hard a case because someone that doesn’t use any kind of force might look at all of use as a case of abuse.