Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for October 11, 2022

sure, Sergio

I misread panel 3. I will spare you what I thought it said. You’re welcome.

You’d be surprised.

Never did hit/spank my kids. Now they’re grown professionals and pretty decent adults, and we have a great relationship. Not exactly sure how hitting them would have made things any better. In fact, the best arguments against hitting kids I’ve seen are the adults who say, “I was hit as a child and look how I turned out.”

There’s a visual that’ll stick with me the rest of the day

Never hit my kids. If I hit some kid out in the street I go to jail so why is it okay to hit my own kids?

Maybe but they could feel your whippings!!!

That’s the trouble with kids today….no discipline. Parents play mind games with them when they are young with “time outs”. When they get older, they have no idea what is right or wrong. It’s hard being a parent….much harder to instill the discipline in kids that will need it throughout their lives. Look around. See a lot of discipline? The young people of today have no respect for themselves, much less others.

Try being a teacher in a classroom full of students who can’t be disciplined! Then we wonder why teachers are leaving the profession. Disciplining your child with a spanking is not the same thing as hitting/beating them.

The biggest lesson you’re teaching your child by hitting them, is that you can solve problems with violence. And since you’re they’re role model, you are telling them that hitting people is okay. People claiming that society is full of undisciplined people because we don’t hit our kids enough anymore are full of it. Go ask the violent members of society—domestic abusers, criminals, inmates if they were hit as kids. You’ll find a much higher incidence of childhood physical “discipline” among them.

My dad had to apply some knowledge to this backside. Saved this 3 year old who like to try and sneak to play near the street of a main road. Thanks Dad.

Oh, so you smack ’em upside da head?

Well, Sergio, actually there are acetaminophen suppositories that can help your children with their headaches. So yes, you can get something into their heads by forcing it into their butts.