[Author's Warning: The clip in this post features some bad language, n*gga nonsense, and possible child neglect. You've been forewarned.]
Like most parents, my wife and I struggle with finding the right balance when the need arises to discipline our two young sons. There’s truly no “one size fits all” when it comes to keeping your kids in check. Some folks are hardcore and old school, pulling out belts and switches at the drop of a dime. Others take a “new school” approach of time outs, revoked privileges, and the like. We tend to go more with the latter, for lots of reasons I don’t care to elaborate on here.
With all that said, I think there’s a very thin line between discipline and outright abuse. This World Star Hip Hop clip blurs the line.
I’ll withhold further opinion and punt to you guys.
Question: Is this necessary? Is this abuse or simply hard discipline? Was there perhaps a better way of getting the point across?!?
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I think the discipline has to fit the child. In the video he discusses with his son how they’d talked about his behavior the day before and taken away his nice clothes as punishment, it didn’t work. I work with kids and prior to doing this kind of work, I was more into the “new school” stuff but you have some kids that just DO NOT respond to that. Im absolutely sure that the son does NOT want to do this again so I bet he’ll think twice about behavior at school. Now had this been done without a previous warning about the behavior or over something petty then I’d say it’s abuse but kids need to be at school learning, especially the young black ones so I think this father’s hard discipline was necessary.
Why are Black people in the Stone Age when it comes to raising successful children. Why not take a page from white America they stopped beating their kids decades ago, they read to their children, they engage. While we run around with that old niggerish spare the rod , and children are to be seen not heard.
I think there is alot missing in this video. Like normal father child interactions and how dad generally conducts himself simply from this video and the manipulative and cruel non loving manner in which he treats his child I’m inclined to say the child acts up due to a dysfunctional home environment. Im also wondering what grandmas role in his life and where’s mom and why dad isn’t clothing but grandma is etc…i thought this was clearly abuse.
I’m old school, I don’t see anything wrong with it aside from the fact that it was recorded. If that kid ended up on Beyond Scared Straight for having a bitch-made Dad that doesn’t care enough to woop his ass, half of the people crying bloody murder over this video would be singing a different tune. I love that he calls him sir. That’s an old school cat cutting his hair.
I was at the library today doing a little bit of research, and I noticed this around 40yr old Asian Lady sitting with her little boy, couldn’t have been older than 8; her son sat there and did all his homework quietly, while it looked like his mom was reading some anatomy book. 2 things I learned from this short span of time; 1. Asians and Indians are going to rule the world soon. 2. Asians and Indians are going to rule the world because they understand what hard work and “discipline” really is.
I mean I can understand spanking a kid, but I think we spank our kids more than any other race, maybe it’s time to rethink the discipline strategy.
The discipline isn’t so much the disturbing part of this video- and it IS disturbing- it’s what’s not there that causes pause.
1- The kid is being raised by his grandmother. Which means, the father’s role is already compromised for some reason or the other. How can he expect his son to respond well to instruction when he’s obviously made some not so fruitful choices of his own?
2- Why the language? No one deserves to be talked to that way. At around 1:20, when he accuses the boy of saying “Eff you” the child’s reaction is almost horrified. Even during the spanking, the verbal abuse was worse than the belt.
3- Why is this being recorded? If it was to show ‘good parenting’ why wasn’t any form of love included? No hugs, no ‘I love yous’, no ‘I believe you can be better;’ just pure abuse. It seemed the video served one purpose: to prove how “tough” the dad is.
In total agreement with Blackchild. This was barbaric, and did nothing to improve the character of this kid. It taught him fear and humiliation, not respectability or the importance of self-control.