Just as a disobedient pony is rolled over on his knees and spanked.

We take their pants down, haul them over our knees, and spank their bare little asses until they can’t sit down!

What if spanking is considered a fairly minor punishment in Equestria, but grounding something fairly severe/borderline abuse? You ever tried to confine a horse?

we machinegun them in a basement.
 

 
kidding.

That’s right Sweetie Belle. We throw disobedient children in the incinerator. And that’s why you should never ever leave Equestria.

@mirageandjazz1197  
Oh he ran back to his parents and is living with them
 

 
he is 46

@Darth Sonic  
Oh don’t worry he did not get away with it first of all he did get in trouble
 
 
and he is also dead now (I met him for the first and last time a few months before then and i’m not sure but i think he changed his ways)
 
Unlike my Step Dad the frigging British a-hole who not only got away scott free but he also left us and ran back to England to get away from bills and now because of him we are just about broke.

@mirageandjazz1197  
Son, that’s called child abuse.

@mirageandjazz1197  
For doing something by accident.
 
 
My Mom also told me that once when she was young her brother (My Uncle) walked in front of the T.V and their Dad threw a remote at his face….very very hard like a football.
 
 
Don’t know how injured he was but he is still alive today and i saw him a couple months ago and he seems fine.

I remember when I was younger (5-8) my Step Dad used to shove me in the dryer in the laundry room and put heavy boxes in front of it so i could not get out and leave me in there for about 2 hours or something like that.

We turn them into donkeys. Haven’t you seen Pinocchio?

@Drackolus  
“Teen rebellion” is a culture-linked disorder of modern Western civilization, like belief in penis-stealing wizards is in Africa, or belief in liquefying internal organs is in some parts of Asia. Teens don’t “rebel” in the sense of doing something specifically because they know their parents don’t want them to do it; they do things they want to do because they want to do those things. The cause of teen rebellion is that parents believe in it, create unnecessary restrictions to try to prevent it or minimize the damage that will naturally result from the teens’ need to learn how to do adult things by trial and error, frustrating teens who don’t really need those restrictions, and then blaming “rebellion” when they naturally try to do things they would’ve tried to do whether you told them they could, told them they couldn’t, or said nothing. It’s a tautology.
 
“My teen threw a party and stole out of my liquor cabinet when I told him not to because he was rebelling.” No. Your teen threw a party and stole out of your liquor cabinet because he wanted to score “cool points” with his friends, and possibly also because he just wanted to get drunk. It’s for the exact same reason you had a liquor cabinet to begin with: because liquor eases social interactions (which are particularly stressful for teens because, let’s face it, their friends are also a bunch of teens), and people also frequently like to get drunk. If you told him he could do those things, it wouldn’t have been “rebellion” when he did them. He still would’ve done them.

There is a clear difference between ‘Beating’ and ‘spanking.’ A spank is a fairly light slap with an open hand, only hard enough to sting for a minute or two. Beating is where that same method leaves hand-shaped welts. It’s up to the parent to understand the difference.

@Darth Sonic  
Besides, given I said the best options usually lies between two opposite extremes and not it does lie between two opposite extremes, negates it from actually possibly being the golden mean fallacy.

@Darth Sonic  
I didn’t notice he commented stating this was an example of the golden mean fallacy, which it most certainly is not.

@Background Pony #B7FD  
And you’re partaking in the Fallacy Fallacy.
 
This is a case in which the Golden Mean is, in fact, a desirable goal.

@thps48  
No idea.

@Techy Pony  
I’m probably too young to know, but did the Cancer Foundation’s ribbon campaign get started in the ’90s? :j

@thps48  
Hey, blame the previous generation for managing to screw up raising children to “be nice to everyone”.

@Background Pony Number 17  
The ’90s was a little confusing ‘cause it was the beginning of the be nice to everyone phase of human existence… Maybe that’s just America and West Europe. <.<

Dear Princess Celestia: Today I learned most of our adult fans seem to have “parent issues”…

@Retl  
Twice.

Explode them.

@Drackolus  
Hehe, I like having fun using that statement ironically.
 
A: “taking a jab at bible”  
B: “are you an atheist?”  
A: “yeah”  
B: “thank god”
 
@Drackolus  
Yay, a descent perspective on the subject!