tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post6339218151097116290..comments2024-03-28T16:46:50.706+00:00Comments on The Moose: Smack my kids up!Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-20800308342123697522012-01-04T15:58:53.745+00:002012-01-04T15:58:53.745+00:00MITB - I wouldn't be surprised if it happened ...MITB - I wouldn't be surprised if it happened again, only dismayed that we let it.<br /><br />Macheath - I wonder what would have happened if you had been of a shorter temper and smacked her square in the chops.Buckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-5069936258259624232012-01-04T13:00:47.111+00:002012-01-04T13:00:47.111+00:00Mud is right - and history has plenty of disturbin...Mud is right - and history has plenty of disturbing examples to prove it.<br /><br />Don't underestimate the power of the net curtain-twitchers too. I had a very unpleasant experience of that kind when the Urchin was small; he suddenly tried to run into a busy road afer a fallen conker and was jerked off his feet by the reins I was holding. <br /><br />As I picked him up, a woman rushed out of a nearby house and shouted that she had seen me hitting the child. I told her she was mistaken but she insisted - she had seen it all from her front window.<br /><br />Her next step was to report me to the head of the nearby primary school where I was on my way to pick up my older child - luckily, the head accepted my explanation and agreed that she had made a mistake.<br /><br />To this day, though, I wonder what would have happened had I been less articulate and not had professional credentials to back me up.Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-57462007194427260862012-01-04T12:41:39.085+00:002012-01-04T12:41:39.085+00:00Getting children to inform on their parents is a g...Getting children to inform on their parents is a great tool of repressive government. Once you begin then the trend will be to become ever more encompassing. The children can inform through their school liason all kinds if things from rascist or sexist language to anti givernment sentiments expressed in the home. <br /><br />It has happened before so don't be too surprised if it happens again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com