Roddy Llewellyn Quotes

[P]ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started laughing back at her, then your spankings were through. That's the way I was raised. So, I got to be about 13 years of age when finally she quit spanking on me. But I think that it was great way to be raised.

Sometimes we'd have to climb a tree and pick our own whips to be disciplined with. When you had to pick your own whip, you knew you were in for it.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

When you chastised a youngster back in the early ages, we called it a whipping.

Look at the laws: you can't spank a kid without getting in trouble. That kept me in line!

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.

Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone reading his outburst of furious indignation against this opinion will be forced to the conclusion that he enjoyed inflicting floggings.

I grew up in an era when strange adults would grab me on the street and say: 'Don't do that.' You never see that these days. 'Hi, we took the liberty of spanking your son.' Oh thanks, my hand was getting worn.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted. Two or three stinging strokes on the legs or buttocks with a switch are usually sufficient to emphasize the point, 'You must obey me.'

For sure, and we haven't found it yet. I understand why we have come to a time and place where we cannot touch the children at school for obvious reasons. I'm not that old, but back then some teacher would take our arm and squeeze it, and it was not fun.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

The thing that should be used very freely is the lash, for it is bodily pain the native fears. He fears nothing else.

Very cruel punishments are inflicted in some of the convict camps, such as scores of lashes on the bare back, for slight offences. Women also are brutally flogged.

A good butt whipping and then a prayer is a wonderful remedy.

If any person or persons shall be convicted of sodomy and buggery, provided he or they be at the age of discretion, and consenting thereunto [he or they] shall suffer imprisonment at hard labor during life, and shall be whipped at the discretion of the magistrates (not exceeding thrity-nine lashes at one time) every three months during the first year after conviction