Finally a story about a good dad

[Shounak]

Boy, 5, made to walk two-and-a-half hours to school | National News | News.com.au

A bit of hilarity what happened afterwards, but just when I thought discipline for the younger generation was gone. This is like old-school discipline with new-generation caring.

I'd imagine in the 70's the dad would probably make the kid walk. But now he's walking with him, which is great.

What makes me even more glad is that there was no mention of Childrens Services about the abusive dad, torturing his 5 year old etc.

A heartening article.

A NORTHERN TERRITORY man has been making his five-year-old son walk two-and-a-half hours to school every day, after he was kicked off the school bus.

When Jack Burt confessed that he'd been banned for five days for hitting the bus driver in the head with an apple core, dad Sam thought he should learn the hard way. He and Jack last week were getting up at 5.10am for the dusty 13km-hike from the Darwin rural area of Herbert, all the way to Humpty Doo.

"Shame it didn't work," Mr Burt told the Northern Territory News.

"He got back on the bus Monday, and within three stops he was in trouble again. I couldn't believe it.

"I don't understand - he's good at school, he gets awards all the time."

However, a breakthrough might be in sight.

When Jack this week said he didn't mind walking - because it made him strong for fighting - he was told if he started fighting he might have to walk home in the afternoons too.

Jack's eyes got a little teary. He said he might not get home before dark.

Mr Burt told him not to worry - they'd leave the key out for him.

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HAH, that is great.

Pity more parents do not take this approach. In fact its a pity child services don't keep their bureaucratic arses out of all business.

[Shounak]

Lol. Just waiting for the bleeding hearts to bleat that he was abused, he needed some counselling/medication/therapy, not physical torture.

[ClairBear]

Give back parental disciplinary rights I say. We need more Dads like Jacks for sure.

Go back to teaching kids their responsibilities instead of their rights.

[CSP]

When were parental disciplinary rights revoked?

[ClairBear]

When were parental disciplinary rights revoked?

Parents have far less control over ways and methods of disciplining children and enforcing house rules these days, for fear of reprisals from bodies such as FAYS or the Police. These days kids are told all the numbers and contacts for agencies should they be abused etc. and what rights they have.

I read somewhere that some parents even shower/bathe with their children with underwear on for fear of being accused of sexual molestation.

No I don't condone thrashing 7 shades of pooh out of a child, or verbal tirades that run the child down, however a simple smack on the back of a leg to a child that is throwing a tantrum or has just bitten his sibling for instance, could land you in a lot of trouble with the do gooders.

[sircruisealotVS]

Give back parental disciplinary rights I say. We need more Dads like Jack for sure.

Go back to teaching kids their responsibilities instead of their rights.

jack is the kid, the dad's name is sam.

i hadnt heard of there ever being some sort of revocation of a parents rights to discipline their children. i always thought new parents these days where just lazy.

[ClairBear]

jack is the kid, the dad's name is sam.

What a difference a forgotten 's' makes

i hadnt heard of there ever being some sort of revocation of a parents rights to discipline their children. i always thought new parents these days where just lazy.

Not revoked I guess so much as changed. The older generations on here will know what I am talking about.

[pip78]

Parents have far less control over ways and methods of disciplining children and enforcing house rules these days, for fear of reprisals from bodies such as FAYS or the Police. These days kids are told all the numbers and contacts for agencies should they be abused etc. and what rights they have. .

I read somewhere that some parents even shower/bathe with their children with underwear on for fear of being accused of sexual molestation. .

thats just political correctness gone wrong

No I don't condone thrashing 7 shades of pooh out of a child, or verbal tirades that run the child down, however a simple smack on the back of a leg to a child that is throwing a tantrum or has just bitten his sibling for instance, could land you in a lot of trouble with the do gooders.

i dont condone that either. i dont see the harm in a simple smack to the back of the legs if a child is misbehaving.

heck when we were kids growing up if we played up we would usually get the wooden spoon to the back of the legs.....sometimes even a whack with the belt across the legs....it taught us not to play up. we even used to get our mouths washed out with soap if we swore.

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Kettle electrical lead FTW!! One hit with that ****er and you NEVER do anything bad again

[ClairBear]

heck when we were kids growing up if we played up we would usually get the wooden spoon to the back of the legs.....sometimes even a whack with the belt across the legs....it taught us not to play up. we even used to get our mouths washed out with soap if we swore.

This sort of treatment is what I am referring to when I say rights have been revoked. When I was growing up, that was the norm for parents at times as part of the discipline process. I have been smacked as a child in the supermarket for throwing a tanty with no one around batting an eyelid, in fact it was those kids who played up and didn't get smacked that got eyes rolling towards the parent.

Smack a kid these days and you had better hope to hell no one saw you, as you might find yourself answering to the police.

[azkwazere]

letting your kid walk home in the NT alone at dark........ wow... what a ****.

Thats asking for **** right there... im all for punishment and jazz but thats a really REALLY bad idea.

But hey, its all good now till something happens and then everyone will all be like "omg, what a heartless dad, the poor kid got hurt... blah blah blah"

god, he'd be better off smacking the kid in the face a few times over this... no wonder he's crying, he's gonna get kidnapped!

fail.

aZk.

[TVR-190]

letting your kid walk home in the NT alone at dark........ wow... what a ****.

Thats asking for **** right there... im all for punishment and jazz but thats a really REALLY bad idea.

But hey, its all good now till something happens and then everyone will all be like "omg, what a heartless dad, the poor kid got hurt... blah blah blah"

god, he'd be better off smacking the kid in the face a few times over this... no wonder he's crying, he's gonna get kidnapped!

fail.

aZk.

The father goes with him.

fail.

[ClairBear]

letting your kid walk home in the NT alone at dark........ wow... what a ****.

Thats asking for **** right there... im all for punishment and jazz but thats a really REALLY bad idea.

But hey, its all good now till something happens and then everyone will all be like "omg, what a heartless dad, the poor kid got hurt... blah blah blah"

god, he'd be better off smacking the kid in the face a few times over this... no wonder he's crying, he's gonna get kidnapped!

fail.

aZk.

Damned if you do.... damned if you don't

[CSP]

The father goes with him? So 2.5 hrs there, 2.5 hrs back. If it's twice a day, the old man spends 10hrs a day going walkabout!

[Rufus®]

The father goes with him? So 2.5 hrs there, 2.5 hrs back. If it's twice a day, the old man spends 10hrs a day going walkabout!

Or does the old man drive in the car behind? 2.5 hours one way, 5 mins back...:P

Okay after reading the story, he was only made to walk to school, not home as well.... that's next apparently....

[Lumps of cheese]

Good on him i say, nothing wrong with a different approach like that.

[System]

letting your kid walk home in the NT alone at dark........ wow... what a ****.

Thats asking for **** right there... im all for punishment and jazz but thats a really REALLY bad idea.

But hey, its all good now till something happens and then everyone will all be like "omg, what a heartless dad, the poor kid got hurt... blah blah blah"

god, he'd be better off smacking the kid in the face a few times over this... no wonder he's crying, he's gonna get kidnapped!

fail.

aZk.

oh, so your saying it is best to TALK to the kid in an open manner to understand WHY he is behaving badly, and then conduct a counselling course with medication? c'mon... the evidence is there, quick action at an early age means a civilised person, you let it go and try other failed methods, the kid will grow up like all the other d***heads out there. Just another beurocratic law to further strengthen the 'tippie toed approach' to parenting

[hsvpunk]

The father goes with him? So 2.5 hrs there, 2.5 hrs back. If it's twice a day, the old man spends 10hrs a day going walkabout!

isnt that what they do anyway...is just go walk about.

[dynamytedave]

Let the kid learn the hard way. I used to cop it if I was out of line, why should the little peckerheads of todays generation get away with blue murder and get off lightly? You know what's gunna happen? We're gunna have a whole generation of knobs who they think they own the world and can do what they want and get away with it.

I grew up in one of South Western Sydney's housing commission enclaves where violence, crime and drug use was, and still is rife. I had every oppurtunity imaginable to take the wrong path, but I didn't, mainly because I knew my old man would come down on me like a tonne of bricks. And now I'm 30, and have never been in trouble with the cops, except for a few scallywag traffic infringements, while most of the idiots I grew up with have criminal records.

It all comes down to the old addage of "Spare the rod, spoil the child". Harden the **** up people.

[Astranomical]

I say good on him. I think kids get it way too easy these days. I'm only 23, but I still remember being told about the cane back when I first started school...I remember once a guy in my class got the cane, and I remember seeing the marks on his hand, needless to say, that alone, along with Dad threatening me with the belt stopped me from getting into too much mischief.