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Originally Posted by TeamHBJJ  There is no part of physical pain in teaching kids respect! NONE!  |
So if a kid reaches out suddenly at a strange dog and gets nipped he won't learn to respect the next animal he comes across?
If he touches a hot stove, he won't learn to 'respect' unfamiliar things that might hurt him?
If he picks on another little kid at school and gets punched in the nose he won't learn that you ought not treat people like that?
If he gets sick from eating too much candy and experiences that pain he won't learn to respect his body?
If he treats girls badly and then gets his heart broken by one he won't learn to respect the feelings of the next gal that comes into his life?
If he has to train hard - very hard - and go through all manner of pain while doing so in order to win in a competition he won't learn to respect the effort and dedication it takes and respect his opponent for putting himself through the same experience to prepare to compete at his best? He won't have a kind of respect for newer kids knowing what they will be going through? He won't respect his coaches and teachers knowing they have been through even more than he?
If he gets punched, kicked, thrown, cut, torn and twisted he won't respect others who have the courage to get in the ring like he did?
If he lives and loves and learns and grows and experiences all the kinds of pain and difficulty that surely life doth bring, he won't respect older people who have seen even more of this life than he?
-school
-sports
-love
-work
-family
-faith
-health
and more all bring pain of one sort or another to one degree or another into everyone's life (no matter how many times you want to threaten to 'beat up' the world to prevent it) and every turn is an opportunity to learn, among other things, respect.
If the only response to pain is fear,
then the parents have dropped the ball somewhere along the line.
I thought I had made all this clear in my initial post.