[nana911]

the voice of sanity! LOL my kids are in their mid 30s... I'm old school. they were not allowed in my room, ever. let alone some strange kid. It would have been much worse than the kid's ear. I've been in law enforcement for over 20years and from where I sit the biggest problem with the kids today has been the decline in 'hands on' discipline. Time out and reasoning with them doesn't work. Sorry, but it doesn't. Look back to the generations that treated adults (and animals i.e. other people's property) with respect and they were the kids whose parents used the 'spare the rod spoil the child' method. Since that went by the wayside, things have gotten much worse. If you start out with old fashioned discipline when they are very young you earn their respect early and you don't have to use it when they are older. My kids still flinch if I move to fast...LOL but I never laid a hand on them after the age of about 7yrs old. and no drugs or jail time etc... my daughter even went into law enforcement herself. so they did alright. Meanwhile, I get the phone calls from mom's who won't touch their kids wanting us to come to their house and make Johnny go to school because at 14yrs old he refuses. I don't necessarily believe in ear pulling per se, but somebody should have blistered something on him long ago, just my opinion.