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From: mazina@pur-ee.UUCP (Der Kaiser)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.legal,net.politics
Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools
Message-ID: <3295@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 12:50:02 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 12:50:02 1985
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In article <273@cylixd.UUCP> charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) writes:
>>I'm not sure what to do about
>>things like hitting neighborhood kids.  Our 2.75 year old has a little
>>problem with this.  We keep talking to her about it.  ("People are not for
>>hitting.")  
>>
>>  -- David Jacobson
>
>There is one solution, directly related to the problem.  If it hasn't
>happened yet, it will.  One of the kids she hits is going to hit her
>back.  She'll then learn *why* people are not for hitting :-).
>		
>		charli

	Hmmm... I always thought that the principle was that hitting 
others was not a `good` thing to do. (define `good`? naahhh :-) Should
the principle read: 

		"Hitting those with the power to hit you back
		 might not be a good thing???????????????????"

					Thomas Ruschak
					pur-ee!mazina

"By the pricking of my thumbs,
 Something wicked this way comes... "
		--- W. Shakespeare