another newbie: hi from sunny cape town

[ryanrich]

Yeah NZ has to seriously start addressing the problems in schools with the young people before the problem gets out of hand...

That's one thing that is a massive problem in NZ as well as OZ nowadays... The youth...

[Nolan]

Isn't it a world wide problem which results from parents and teachers not being able to dicipline the kids anymore?

[Harm]

It seems to be a worldwide problem. My opinion is that it stems from the problem the world has in disciplining children. Children can't be given free reigns. They need boundaries and it needs to be enforced. The proverbial "spare the rod" issue. In stead of finding a happy medium between harsh medievel type discipline and none at all the world has gone to the latter extreme, becaus eof the fear of taking away childrens rights. I can go on and on the whole day, but it boils down to the boundaries thing. If they do not have those they do not know what is right and what is wrong.

to quote a famous and frequent contributor "my 2c worth" 

[tmprince]

heavens since SAKB people are throwig a lot of small change around ! 

[Harm]

  note it is ZAR 2c so not worth a hell of a lot 

[SaKiwiBoer]

Well lately I found out that my 2c worth has gone through the great depression and is now only 1/2c worth.... . But I do agree with most of the posts.
I am a firm believer of giving a kid a hiding if he needs one. My Dad always used to say that a kid goes on his knees and pray for a hiding and if that happens then a parent should give them what they pray for...    . My kids know what it means if I talk about a "pak-pak". Cheese and enjoy. SAKB.

[alwyn]

Everybody keeps on telling kids they have the same rights as adults.  Kids use this to their benefit. 

Yet everybody forgets what happens when an adult abuses his rights, he gets punished, go to jail, pay a fine, whatever.

In my house I'm the cop, the magistrate and the president.  If you abuse your rights you will be judged and punished, but not abused.

Adults are the source of these problems.  The 0 - 50% (I'm being generous) of adults out there who don't want to discipline their kids because it was so bad when they were kids or who spoil there kids rotten because they want them to have what they didn't have when they were growing up.  These kids that can't do anything wrong because they are of my superior genes...

Granted some people were abused as kids, but does that justify making it worse for everybody?

[ronaldd]

alwyn for president