Do you beleive in spanking your children as a form of discipline

My dad use to spank me when I truly deserved it. It wasn't abusive or anything, and it was never really that hard. He just used it to teach me a lesson and honestly it made respect him. I believe there is a fine line between discipline and abuse. Just never spank when you are really angry use it to teach lessons only when they really deserve to be disciplined.

Absolutely! I was spanked when I deserved it, and so was my husband. We grew up to be productive, well-balanced members of society. And we still love our parents and have no ill feelings or resentment towards them whatsoever for their chosen form of discipline. So I definitely don't think there is anything wrong with spanking as a form of discipline. Do I think there is a line? Yes, I do. Some people beat the snot out of their kids. I don't think that is right. I can remember times when I received a spanking. It hurt my pride far more and for much longer than it hurt my behind. But boy, it taught me right from wrong real quick. That is a black-and-white way to let a child know that the behavior that they just received punishment for was not acceptable. I can tell you that I was never spanked more than once for the same thing. I have seen way too many kids nowadays that run all over their parents because the parents don't discipline them. Some kids need spanking. Time out, grounding, etc. just aren't working for them. Sometimes, nothing works as well as a good smack on the behind. Some kids don't see the punishment as severe enough to warrant not committing the act again. So kids will continue to do the same things over and over and over that they have been told not to do, simply because "time out" doesn't mean anything to them. Or, even better: "Go to your room!" That NEVER worked for my brother, who had an x-box and his computer in his room! Of course, the punishment should fit the crime. But spanking is definitely a form of punishment I believe in! So you better believe I'll be spanking my kids when I should be so lucky to have some. Of course, it will be when they deserve it. And after they've had a chance to apologize and make things right, then we will move on.

I've swatted and have spanked but it's not something I want to do and it's not something that's part of regular discipline. My kids are 13 and 8 now and while I threaten the 8 yr old with a spanking, it's never going to happen. I wish I knew what to say to this discussion. I'm absolutely horrible at discipline.

Both of my sons are grown now, but I was and am a believer in spankings. That is the way I was disciplined and I think I turned out pretty well. Some things, to me, just require a spanking over a time out. Time outs are fine if they work. They never seemed to work for mine and don't seem to work for my granddaughters either. My main fear when growing up was when I did something that my mother felt warranted a spanking would be having to pick a "swithch" from one of our trees! It had better had been a good one too or she would have picked one herself!

i believe that spanking is the discipline i have one son then my son is very if he like to get he get here own but if we talk the sin we can talk without spanking coz if always spanking the children i think the children it si not obey uif there is a problem we talk 1st ok.

I never spank the children even they make me noice.

My parents never had to spank me because the other methods worked on me. Make me sit in a corner or take away toys or TV, so on... however my brother was a different story... they had to spank him because nothing else worked... however somehow he much have been born with an iron you know what... because that boy laughed when he was being spanked... Which may account with how he's a 23 year old who still lives at home and will never learn. That probably didn't really help, but what I do think is if you tried everything else you may need to go to the next level... just hope for you the children don't have an iron you know what and laugh in your face.

For me spanking doesn't mean discipline. I used to be a maltreated child when I was younger. In my culture, they were saying that spanking is a form of discipline and your parents love you thats why they do that. I didn't know that my mother is maltreating already not until I reached high school. My friends and teachers opened my mind and told me that what my mother was doing is not normal. I was being turned over to social welfare for a few months. I got back home when my mother promised to my social worker that she will not hurt me again. At first, she was nice but after 3 months, we was back to her old ways of hurting me. I runaway from home and started to make my own life because I can't get a job when I was with my mother, she would be spanking me before I go to my job interviews. Honestly, I have low self-esteem and no confidence when I was being maltreated. I also have developed hatred with my mother. I am a positive thinker right now, I have gained confidence with myself and I am happy the life I live right now even I don't see my mother. She has a deviant behavior, she has a sadistic atittude not only with me... she used to hurt the house maids, or the pets of my sisters. Discipline can be done in a diplomatic way and not by spanking the child/ren. I don't have kids yet but I will in the near future but I don't have any plans to hurt my future kids as I don't want them to feel or experience with my past. What happened to me is different and caused a lot of pain. I want to have a harmonious, caring and loving family.

personally, i don't really agree with spanking our children as part of a discipline. because we can educate them manner, moral, knowledge, behaviour, etc nicely..we can be a tough parents and discipline, without being rude. because once we spank our children, we will get teased to do that again whenever they're being bad..sooner or later it will be a bad habit for us as a parents. and it will leave a bad memories on their minds that their parents used to spank or hit them. but..if it is really-really necessary, i mean really-really as and without any bad purpose then it might be ok for just once or twice. just dont use our children as a victims whenever we feel tired or stressful at work or with our life.

I don't prefer spanking kids as a form of discipline. I would like to spank them for fun. There are lot of other ways to teach them discipline.....for me, spanking is fun and not a punishment.

I don't believe in this method of disciplining children. Yes, we can get immediate desired response from them because we have injected fear. Meanwhile, this can create trauma to children.

I never agree with spanking children. It will only hurt them, and they will remember it only as a bad thing when they grown up. I try to speak to my child whenever he makes something wrong. It's better than spank him or do physical abuse to your child.

I personally don't believe in spanking children as a form of discipline... However I used to be disciplined in this way and it did me no harm

To discipline a child, there should be a power to exert on them. And Crime and punishment always apply. What do you think the children think, if they made a "mistake" and they got away unpunished, or maybe just got scolded for it. These might encourage them to repeat the same "mistake" again. So i believe punishing them might warn them how severe their action toward our dislike. So in my point of view, should children be punish, YES but assessed the action and gives an appropriate punishment.

In todays era it will not good spanking our children, we can explain them untill they understand and accept the reasons for discipline but it sometime difficult if we did it our self. Me experience was we can not not make our children discipline but his/her teachers and school did it. They need supoort and love and directions from their parents but a little but harder teaching from their school, means shool and parents has it complementary role to build our children's discipline. I feel I am not successful parents, that's why i can tell you this case, we got much problem so that my daughter undergo much problem too and also my boy, sometimes regret very much to what already done to my children but we are not too late I think and wish at their last periode colledge they will be able overcome and grow as normal peoples.

i grew up with spanking parents...my father is the one always spanking us when we do bad things but we always knew it was done all of love...when he spank us he always ask us why he had to do it..reason is he wants us to realize our own mistake and will always explain why he hurt us...we never kept it against him, never hurt feelings...now i can say we are a grown better people because of our father's discplined us well..spanking is different from beating...smetimes it is necessarry to give a good spank for children to grow a well grown being..

I don't have any child of my own but my older brother does. I don't believe in spanking children because it doesn't change anything. Yeah, it may serve as an example to them that if they do those things that they did again they will get spanked. They are children. Their judgment is still not that broad yet. It's about talking to them and making them understand what you are saying.

i have 4 children 3 of them have got spanked on the butt for doing something they know they should not of done but with my 11 year old son there is no point because it don't work for him infact nothing does because he just dont care he has mental problems but any way my 6 year old and 3 year old dont like it at all so all i have to do is warn them and most of the time they will stop , my 4th child is only 1 so i have not spanked her and dont think i will for awhile i dont see her doing anything where she will need it,

honestly i dont do that to my children i dont think it will do a lot as for me when my child done something wrong i talk to him and try to make him understand that what he done was wrong. and i think its working i dont want my son to fear me rather i want to him to respect me. but how can i earn that if i will spank him. in order to get people respect you must also learn how to respect them eventhough they are still a child.

i use spanking as a form of discipline. first, i'll give the kid a warning that if she ever does it again, i'll have to punish her by spanking. i believe that gives her a choice. if she does it again, then i spank her on her butt. i never spank her on any other parts of her body only the butt. then i'll give her a hug after and explain why i did that to her. after that, it makes me feel good when in between her cries, she'll say sorry and give me a tight hug.