Uh...yeah

Every now and again you read a story that disturbs or horrifies. Okay, so in today's climate that is pretty much an everyday thing...but even outside the "normal" course of events where people shooting up schools or killing their spouses or whatever, every now and again a story comes along that is so beyond the pale that even in our shock-weary world, this one still shocks you.

For example, what about the 4 year old kids who would not take a nap so the school security officer handcuffed them?

Horrifying story. As mis-behaved as many kids are these days when we are told to "reason" with little children...as if, you know, the cognitive skills of prepubescent...or, for that matter, hormone driven...kids are developed to the point where they will be reasoned with. Uh-huh. Well, it is little shock that in a time with parenting "skills" like that there are numerous ill-behaved little brats throwing fits left and right, doing what they wish when they wish.

I have long laughed about the efforts of a couple former co-workers. They bought into the whole psycho-babble philosophy of reasoning, positive reinforcement, and time-outs. It was awesome. The dad...let's call him Joe...would tell the kid...say, Charlie..."Charlie, if you don't stop, you are going to get a time-out." So Charlie would flail his arms and scream and tell them he hated them. And Joe would go to the book for advice, try to reason with him about the hurtful nature of hate and so forth and tell him he was going to get a time-out. So the kid would act up even worse. So Joe would pick him up and put him in the time-out location...which would last until about a millisecond after Joe released him, then Charlie would be running around doing what he wanted. In 6 months I never once saw a time-out actually happen. The kid was smarter than the parents. He knew what he wanted to do and was going to do it because there were no consequences to not doing so. At worst he would be sentenced to a punishment he would not accept so there was no punishment. But boy did Charlie and K-girl reason with him...so pathetic.

Anyhow, the sidelong diatribe aside, when I first read the piece on the handcuffed kids I was pretty perturbed. Then I started thinking about it. Hmm. Took over a year for this to come to any one's attention. The kids have different ages and the same memory. Why is it that I suspect a good investigator might find this event, IF it happened, was not at the time and place the suit alleges? Why do I suspect this case will turn out to be completely different from the way this article portrays it? Something is rotten in Denmark...and in this case, Denmark is what they say happened. Watch for created memory syndrome or such such bollocks to come up in this case. Because frankly, it strains the bounds of credibility.