Do you believe in spanking your child?

I have spanked my children, not anymore they are 9 and 11. But when they were younger I did spank. I used spanking as the ultimate punishment and other methods of correction first. They were warned, they were given lessor punishments like time outs, scoldings, sentences, and so on, but if all else failed and they repeat the actions, then a spanking would be the final straw. I think many picture a spanking as a beating or a whipping. To me a spanking is a swat across a clothed bottom, period. No hitting anywhere else on the child and most of all not in the face. Many studies have been done on spanking and there is no proof spanking a child in a healthy fashion, not beating them, leads to a poor adult. In fact there is no proof that it causes any long term negative effect at.

For the most part my children only got spanked if they were doing something dangerous (like running in the street, playing someplace dangerous, wandering off that kind of stuff). There are some lessons in life they don't get a second chance to learn, by only spanking on the emergancy situations they learned if they got whipped they better be learning it fast.

No, time out and when older, explaining and taking away priveliges works. Spanking backfires in so many ways is corporeal punishment. Here are ten great reasons NOT to spank your child. http://www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/tenreasons.html

Yes, I do believe in spanking as a form of discipline but I also use other form of discipline such as taking away privileges, I consider this quite effective compared to spanking. This truly applies if you have teens like me who can't be spanked anymore. They will learn from their mistakes if an important privilege is taken away from them particularly cellphones.

I do agree with spanking your child , but it is not the only form of disipline i use, I also take away privledges, and also I understand that it does seem hypocritical when a kid smacks and you smack back. What ever form of disipline me or my husband use, we always explain to them , why they are gitting disiplined and what they have done wrong. We always tell them are job as parrents is to teach them wrong from right . Being a parrent is a hard job , but what ever form of disipline we use , If it is working for us , and we are raising well rounded kids, I think it doen't really matter . I always express how much i love them after , and that i just want them to learn right from wrong.

People need to discipline children, and I think spanking helps reinforce the discipline. You can tell your child no, and try to explain to them why you are saying no, but that doesn't always work. And when a child deliberately does something wrong, spanking shows you aren't going to let them get away with it. I don't endorse whaling on a child, but a firm smack on the butt will let them know they can't get away with things. I also know a lot of people who withhold privileges at first but after a couple of days let it go. And a lot of it depends on how old the child is too. When my daughter was a toddler I made her sit in a time-out chair for 15 minutes. She hated that, and was usually good after that. One time at a mall, she hid in a rack of clothes and I was frantic trying to find her-she was about 18 months old-when I found her I spanked her right then and there and told her why, how worried I was, and why she shouldn't do that again. People looked at me like I was a monster, but she never again tried hiding at a store.

I do spank my child, but only as a last resort. First I do time out. Then I take away toys and etc. THEN, if it continues, I do spank.

I dont like to spank my daughter. I use the take away toys or privilages method. It works most of the time. I had watched Supernanny the other night and she had used the steps as a time out place. I tried that with Stephanie once so far and it didn't work at all. She kept getting up and up and I'm not going to waste my whole day trying to make her sit in time out. I know that is my fault for not taking the time to do it. I will need to figure out a plan for time outs and explain it to her so she knows what it means. Anyways, getting off the subject. My husband used to spank her all the time and it honestly made her worse. She hits us and spits too. She thinks it's okay to do cause she did it to him. Now there are also times when I will spank her but she really has to make me mad.

I think that spanking is wrong, and only teaches children that people who are bigger and stronger than you can hit you to make you do what they want. I use time outs and now as they get older, loss of privileges like computer or tv time, or loss of their Ipods or gameboys is very effective.

That's a no no. Here in the Philippines, if a parent does that in his/her child, he/she will be reported to 163 and it will get any parent in jail. I guess spanking is not a way to discipline a child. I think talking to the child and making him understand could be a way.