Teach Your Children to Talk with Macho Man Randy Savage

When my son was first learning how to talk I decided that he needed to listen to Macho Man. So every night when I would be up with him late I would get online and play Macho's interviews with "Mean" Gene Okerlund.

For the first couple of weeks nothing really seemed to be coming of it other than me having a great time watching one of my all time favorite wrestlers in his prime. So I upped the ante and started watching Rowdy Roddy Piper.

Still nothing - or so I thought until my nieces were up during our vacation and he started raining down elbows from the top bunk of their bunk beds and screaming about changing questions!

BEST. DAD. EVER.

[Tripping Your Social Justice Trigger] Spanking

Raising children is filled with these moments where you will be completely and totally at odds with random strangers because of how you handle your children. One of the really hot button issues is spanking. On one side of the fence are these people who passionately believe that laying a hand on your children is not only a good thing, but should actively be done because refusing to do so is denying your child a proper and good upraising. The other side holds that you should never lay a hand on your child no matter what they do because the act of performing violence on your child is such a violation of the parental trust that you do irreparable harm to kid's psychological well being.

I sit in the middle at this point in raising my child because he's not even two yet. Sitting down with him and telling him that he's done wrong does neither of us any good at this time because he doesn't fully understand nor does he care about my reasoning. We could talk till I was blue in the face and he'll still try to put something in the furnace and set the whole house on fire (hopefully not intentionally, but again we're early in his life). So at this time I spank and teach him what not to do. 

Now as he gets older and is more fully able to understand what I'm saying we will be moving over to a time out chair. We'll not be sending him to his room because he's just going to play with his toys. Having a chair where he can't get down and play is the best punishment I ever got when I was a child because nothing, nothing is worse than being in the middle of all the action and not being able to participate.

I know that this isn't normal fair for this blog but I'm a father before I'm a blogger or a gamer; and on this occasion I just needed to get this off my chest. I'll be back to my normal fair tomorrow.