Spanking your children

Yes sometimes that form of discipline is necessary.

Yes, I agree that there are many alternatives. Spanking is becoming less and less common here.

although i dont have children but even in future, i m not going to spank

I totally agree with you.I would never spank my child when i have one. Maybe if the situation demands I may spank him. But, that would be a light spanking. I feel in today's world parents have to become their children's friend if they want to have a healty relationship with them.

i prefer not to .

Yesterday we spanked. Now we count 1-2-3. I guess counting will teach them how to count. What number are you going end your counting? When the child hurts himself. Spanking is good.

there is nothing like the hand. I was spanked being raised and I feel my parents did a good job by me. I spanked my daughter, NOT BEAT- and she has turned out wonderful. Kids now days get to much material things, and not enough family time.

I am a parent, with a fifteen year old daughter and a nione year old daughter, along with a 19 yr. old stepson, and fifteen yr. old step-daughter. Understand that I will not claim to know all, and then state I do not have children. That is about as bad as having a woman teach a Divorce class about how to treat your children, and the turn around and say she has none...(this has happened to me and I got up and walked out). First, all children are different, and must be considered so. But... There is a time to get their butts, and if you don't then authority in your own house is lost, as they see you as weak and not willing to enforce the rules you have set down. I truly despise folks who do not understand that force is needed as a loving response when discipling your children, as it sets boundaries that they are to follow or consequences are paid. Life is not fair, and any fool who teaches their children that it is; is doing them a disservice. If you steal, then aren't there consequences? If you lie, should there not be consequences? If you break the rules of my house, then should there not be consequneces? I do not advocate smacking your child anywhere but on the bottom, except in cases where the mouth overloaded the a** when back-talking, of which I will not abide, and sometimes...it doesn't hurt for a child to know what Ivory soap tastes like. New Age, IRS's religion Scientology, and other ignorant social ideologies have sapped many parents of their will to actually teach their own children right from wrong, and allow the Public School (Fool) system to supplant them as parents. I wish for this to not be so, but fear that topics such as this one, will continue until parents finally take control of their children once again as described in Natural law. Think about it for just one moment, please...Did your grandparents turn out so terribly bad? Food for thought. Freedomrox

i dont spank my son. there are other ways to discipline than with hitting. plus i dont want to teach him that its ok to hit. ya know?

no

I myself agree with spanking, at least up to a certain age. At some age they arent going to listen anyhow. I do think that time out is for the birds. I think if we were able to punish kids like our parents did, kids wouldnt turn out the way they are.

When ever my daughter is doing something that she isnt supposed to, I counted down from 5 and if she doesnt stop thaen she gets popped on the hand. My parents spanked me. I feel that the child starts to understand that if i dont do bad things, then i wont get popped. It teaches themabout Cause and Effect. But dont just beat on them. After I pop her hand I explain why it was wrong to do what she did.

some time they need to be spanked

I feel that when your child is about to touch a hot stove or stick fingers in power points a smack on the bottom or hand is necessary for them to associate the shock and (minimal) pain with the bad action. If a kid tries to stick things in the power point and you just say no and put him in time out the child will still be curious and not realise the fact that a power point hurts. I dont advocate unnecessary spanking, but put it this way, how many of you were spanked as a child? Ok now how many of you are serial killers or rapists or 'bad' people? Really? Wow spanking mustn't be that bad if we all survived it and came out the other side with a few lessons on behaviour.

Sometimes spanking is needed. It clears the air. The child is punished, the wrong-doing is forgiven and the slate is wiped clean. Spanking is done on the bottom, not a slap across the face or anywhere else.

I believe that each child is different. With my first daughter I never spanked her, with my second child all I had to do was point, with my son I do at times. I believe there is a punishment for each child. As they grow spanking may be desirved but not as a little child, only if they are old enough to know why they are being spanked.