How do you punish your kids?

I punish my child by letting life teach him what he needs to learn. I focus on directing him into positive experiences and have found out that there is little need for corpral punishment. If I hit him, I teach him that violence is a solution. If I scream and yell, he can't learn how to communicate. Sometimes I falter. I snap at him. It is during those times that I teach him the best lesson of all. I sit him down and talk to him about how I am not perfect. That none of us are. He needs to know that I do not belong on a pedisol. I can teach him only what I know. The best lesson that I have learned is I need to ask myself what he wants and figure out how to teach him to get it without harming others. It is working out well so far.

Oh, my family's kids (including my siblings & myself) were spanked when needed. Or stood in the corner. But now that they're in college, we've all done well in school and none have ever been in trouble at school or with the police. The kids are smart young adults with good judgement. Those that stare at you... Those are the same morons who don't reprimand their little monsters, send them to school as if the teachers were babysitters, then take away their authority of consequences. The same morons whose little monsters are running around, crawling all over the place, and disrupting shelves, yet they themselves are nowhere to be seen. I ADORE well mannered children, but we know that children will be children. Everyone has their own ideas of how to reprimand, I guess, but you sound like you're a good mommy to me! Aloha!

I let mine learn on their own. It is like the theory that they dont really know the stove it hot until they touch it and get burned. They will never touch the stove again after that. As for acting up in public, it is embarasing so i will bring lots of distractions, but if people are going to be rude about me bringing my kid in public it is their problem and they probablly dont have kids to understand just how they act.

often by yelling at them

The reason you fill like that is because those that got their back side bet when they were little, said to them self " i'm not going to bet my kids." and they feel that no one else should either and it spreaded, so now when you spank your kids you feel you are doing wrong because other people say you are doing wrong. so those same people say you should take something from the child, that teaches them not to be bad or to do wrong. BULL i say. if you take from them when they do wrong all you doing it teach them is, to take from others because they dont like what was dont to them. they will end up in the lock up. I say spank them and put them in the room. so as they get older they will have learn that if you do wrong to others your freedom will bill taken away. ie locked up.