What's Your View of Spanking (Children)?

minimus

Have you done it? Would you still? Is it ever acceptable?

kid-A

Teaching your children that "violence" is an acceptable method of dealing with problems is NEVER acceptable. Violence begets violence....ALWAYS.

My only rule is that if the child disobeys me and puts themself in danger then a spanking may soon follow. Otherwise it is the dreaded timeout with no gameboy, no TV, no toys, no juice box, nada for as long as I deem necessary. The last time I spanked was maybe a year or two? My youngest child was playing too near the street corner and I told her to get back and come closer to where we were sitting in the front yard. As sassy as she is she smiled and stood there taunting...well I got up to fetch her and then she darted right into the street...scared the crap out of me and yeah my palm was introduced to her backside. She never did it again. I got spanked sometimes when I was a kid and I still remember some, but the thing I remember most is the anger that seemed to seeth when some of the whippings with belts occured. I make a conscious effort to never be that way with them.

This is us having a timeout on 4th of July weekend. I think this one was for interrupting mommy repeatedly while she was one the phone..

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

Sara Annie

I do not think that it is acceptable as a primary form of discipline.

I do, however, think that there are occasions in which spanking (and it's of importance to note here that we're not talking beatings--no foreign objects used to hit a child, no repeated blows, no calculated disrobing to make it more painful, no face slapping, etc. I define a spanking as a swat to a clothed behind with a hand, or a slap on the wrist/hand) has it's place.

I firmly believe that there are many effective, loving ways to discipline your children that involve redirection, reasoning, and depriviation of privileges/belongings. I also know that in the collective 3 times in their lives that my children have been spanked (it has been a single swat on the behind, and twice a slap to the hand) that it was absolutely the LAST action resorted to and all three situations involved actions by the children that were truly life-threatening. All three were last resort reactions when reason and accountability did not do the job of impressing upon them the danger of their actions. And they were also unilaterally effective. The swat to the butt along with the stern talking to about letting go of Mommy's hand and running accross the parking lot marked the second, and LAST time that happened. The slap to the hand each of my children received as toddlers after the second time they attempted to wedge and outlet cover out of a socket left enough of an impression to make sure they remained untouched after that. I do not regret any of those instances.

I have found that as my children have gotten older, reasoning and depirvation of privileges have been the most effective ways to disclipline.

I beat babies

at Nintendo I presume?

kid-A

Prophecor needs a good spanking!

What's Your View of Spanking (Children)?

minimus

prophecor

kid-A

Valis

Sara Annie

prophecor

funkyderek

Valis

kid-A

prophecor

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