Cattle Prod?!?!

[JessicaGhig]

I was talking with a like-minded couple from church about gentle discipline. They mentioned that their aunt had used a cattle prod on her kids! Seriously? I grew up in a paddle/belt/pipe/gluestick/horse whip church. But a CATTLE PROD? That's new to me! How can we claim to follow Christ while torturing our children? Gonna go hug my babies now :(

[rjy9343]

I am pretty sure that is illegal. If she still has children in the home, I would get the information and report her. I don't usually say report for bad parenting choices, but this is beyond the pale.

[JoEllen]

:sick

[milkmommy]

please let that have been a sick joke..

[ThreeKids]

I hope that's a symbolic term someone used for other implements of coercion, not that those are always less bad. I hold out a second hope it was counsinly banter misunderstood. My cousin, when very young, told me a bizarre way her dad would spank her sister that in retrospect was just oneupmanship on her part.

[Findabhair]

Unfortunately a quick google search brings up quite a few people who were charged with using electric cattle prods on their children. :(

[milkmommy]

Glad they were charged. I have no doubt this practice is done..I can't comprehend bragging about it.

[Rivendell Raven]

:jawdrop

[mummy2boys]

:jawdrop :cry

[Zooey]

That is just so horribly:sick sickmaking for me to even hear it.
That is simply evil. THere is no other word for it......

[MariJo7]

I'd contact the police.

[CelticJourney]

Legally and morally this doesn't even come close to discussion regarding discipline - it is either a history of horrid abuse in their extended family (mentioned in the past tense, nor present) or a exaggeration on their part and I would keep that in mind either way.