How do you discipline?
By wallfranklin
@wallfranklin (148)
United States
January 31, 2009 12:50pm CST
I always get crap from everyone on how I treat my children. I'm 100% against spanking because first off, it never worked on me so I'd imagine it wouldn't work on my kids, second of all my analogy of spanking is like a man beating a woman. An adult hitting a child who can't stick up for themselves. We personally do time out and we started this at age 1 with my first son and we're starting with my second who just turned one. It seems to be effective. I count to five before they go to time out and on my first I only get to three before he stops what he's doing. How does everyone else discipline?
6 responses
@mgmagana (3618)
• United States
31 Jan 09
my kids will be disciplined according to whatever they did wrong...my 2nd oldest has a tendency of hitting and choking my youngest n my only daughter....he will definitely get spanked for that and sent up to his room. He's really the only one doing anything rebellious, my daughter will just make messes, she just gets told to clean them up..my oldest has pretty much out grown all the bad behavior until his teen yrs. i'm sure. everyone has their methods of discipline and what they feel works best for them, unless it's actual abuse no one should be criticized for it.
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@wallfranklin (148)
• United States
31 Jan 09
I don't judge anyone for how they discipline their children. I agree some things work better than other for some. I only have a problem with it when my children have to see it happen. My neighbors, for instance, have no problem spanking their children around in my house in front of my kids. This is when I have a problem. They can take them out to discipline them if they would like to spank.
@StrawberryKisses (2833)
• Canada
1 Feb 09
In the last 2 yrs or so I would say it depends what my kids are doing. If it is nothing really major they get time outs or things taken from them. My son and now my daughter both have a problem with getting really aggressive with one another. My daughter is 2 and cannot have an 85lb 6 yr old getting aggressive with her so my son is punished by either a spanking and sent to his room for 10 minutes or all privilages are taken from him including tv, computer, video games and friend time. By daughter gets a swat on the bum(nothing that leaves a mark) and a 3 minute time out. For the most part I try not to spank but there are just times when it is needed and I know that other things will not work.
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@explorations (1712)
• United States
31 Jan 09
I don't spank my children, either, but I do discipline them each time an instance comes up where it's needed and necessary. We use time out, and we take away privelages depending on what's gone wrong. It works a lot better than harming them out of anger.
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@goldeneagle (6745)
• United States
1 Feb 09
All kids should know the power of the belt or the switch...LOL
@Autumnrose2008 (1478)
• United States
31 Jan 09
I did the time out thing as well but for my kids time out was fun I think. LOL. Then I realized my kids hate to clean. Now we have them clean up there rooms and the bathrooms that they use. I know its odd but my kids would rather die than have to clean. Needless to say we usually dont have problems with discipline my kids do what there told so that they dont have to clean.
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@agreen (39)
• United States
11 May 09
I used to spank my children and don't anymore. What we do now is take away things that they enjoy. TV, games, toys, etc. Time Out never worked for us.
