Spanking the gray matter out of our kids

The effects of spanking may include less gray matter in certain areas of the brain that have been linked to depression, addiction and self-control.

I have had some very serious and almost friendship-ending debates over spanking with people.. I do not condone it.. I even get a little queasy when I hear people argue that people have the right to do with their kids what they want in their own homes.. Some even use the Bible to justify their punishments. Then again, lots of people use the Bible and any other religious text to justify anything..

If you’re the spanker, things can escalate too quickly and go too far too fast.. Even those parents with the best of intentions can also direct the punishment with anger—using too much force as a means to get their own vent of frustration as opposed to simply ‘teaching a lesson,’ as proponents say the method of torture punishment is..

Some from aging generations will argue that spanking never hurt them.. they will say that ‘kids these days sometimes need the paddle’ over other means of punishment.. But.. who says that parents aren’t still aggressively engaging in corporal punishment? The CNN story quotes a survey from 2012—not long ago—in which half of the woman in this nation and three quarters of the men think a good ‘hard spanking’ is a good course of action with a child. 

Sarah Kovac points out this in her article: 

Harsh corporal punishment in the study was defined as at least one spanking a month for more than three years, frequently done with objects such as a belt or paddle. Researchers found children who were regularly spanked had less gray matter in certain areas of the prefrontal cortex that have been linked to depression, addiction and other mental health disorders, the study authors say.

That’s important.. Very important.

Even more important, according to the same research, spanking led children to become more aggressive by the ages of 3 and then 5, and it had the greatest impact on a child by the age of 9. 

If you’re still in favor or spanking, or whatever other painful ways to punish another human, think first.. And primarily, even ignoring the scientific evidence to show spanking does some more damage to a brain than it does a rear, think of this: Are you inflicting the pain on your son and daughter to teach them .. or to appease your own ancient instincts to hurt..? 

This is a sore subject for me—no pun intended.. I was never spanked.. I was ‘poked’ hard in the shoulder to shut my little kid yapper up now and then.. but never had any painful punishments inflicted on me. All of the kids who I know did have those punishments were either mentally disturbed then, or are now..

Spanking the gray matter out of our kids

So maybe those who interpret the Bible literally should rethink their idea that the earth is 6,000 years old

The genetic Adam and Eve uncovered.. .. Research claims that every man on the planet can trace his orgins to one man who lived 135,000 years ago..And that ancient man likely shared the planet with the mother of all women

So is the History Channel’s BIBLE ‘devil’ modeled after Obama? That is apparently the chatter all over the internets today..

The History Channel is responding, as is mark Burnett, who called the story nonsense..

And after all, it did appear in the UK DAILY MAIL..

Bible enthusiasts believe they have found "irrefutable" evidence of Chariots in the Red Sea

Bible enthusiasts believe they have found "irrefutable" evidence of Chariots in the Red Sea

Harold Camping admits he was fully loaded with crap

Finally down to earth? Harold Camping says his prediction(s) of rapture was a mistake.. 

Wonder who out there among his followers that lost everything and abandoned cars and jobs also think it was a mistake?

Sadly the cult epic we saw last year happened—with people literally crying in their back yards because they were not raptured from the earth and taken to heaven. But who is to say heaven is up anyway.

Maybe heaven is a place on, or in, earth..

The purpose and importance of the Bible-- or lack thereof

Without a doubt the Bible has been one of the most famous books ever created, ever written , and ever circulated on the planet earth. But, the question remains of whether it has as much meaning today as it has throughout the ages previous. For example, you may be able to find it in most American hotels, but does that even matter anymore given the proclivity of human nature to not care about what is written in it anyway? Going a step further, the debate over what is written in it and when it was written aside, what if the Bible as a whole simply doesn’t matter anymore? Could it be that state of spirituality is able to continue without any help from this book. I guess what I’m trying to say, is that while the Bible may be the most read book of all time do people really ever read it? If they did take it ad literally as they say they did, we may still have slaves and women wouldn’t have much of a right to vote or do anything. Maybe the Bible never even matter to begin with, and it’s a dead doesn’t matter one bit as much now as it did that…?