Do’s and Don’ts to Beating Your Kids

• Do beat your kids in public.
• Do beat your kids in front of a camera.
• Do beat your kids in front of a worldwide audience.
• Do beat your kids when FOX viewers are watching.
• Do beat your kids against the backdrop of civil disobedience, civil unrest and racial tensions.

• Don’t beat your kids in private.
• Don’t beat your kids while FOX viewers aren’t watching.
• Don’t beat your kids without the world clearly understanding why.
• Don’t beat your kids without the backdrop of police brutality.

Now that you know the ins and outs, you can now have a good picture of when it’s okay to beat your children. Wait a minute, wait a minute — hasn’t the media, psychologists, experts and educators told us for years now that corporal punishment is a no-no? Haven’t they told us taking a belt, switch, book, stiletto, extension cord or fist is clearly child abuse? Haven’t they warned that anyone who hits their child is clearly a monster? A time-out is the only civil prescription.

But Toya Graham, the “Baltimore Mom,” as she is now known, publicly beat and shamed her teenage son for participating in public protests opposing the death of unarmed Freddie Gray by police officers. Since she stated she didn’t want her son “to be another Freddie Gray” it seemed to resonate with many. After all, many people think if you get killed by the police whether armed or unarmed, resisting or not, you deserve whatever you get. They’re just doing their jobs, getting another punk off the street. Therefore, Baltimore Mom was clearly justified because she wants to keep son on the straight and narrow.

So this brings us back to that age-old question: is it ever okay to beat your kids? If so, when? Did Baltimore Mom go too far or did she do her job?

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