Spankin vs. Beating Your Child

i think spanking is applicable to young children. but as they grow older i applied another punishment other than that. It's effective if i let them face the wall for 30 mins. And I've notice that things are getting better. They've been trying to be remember to do the right thing as possible. I don't agree in beating the child. It's a sign of child abuse. And it is not proper to discipline the child this way.

I agree absolutly with you about the difference between spanking and beating a child. In fact, let´s start with linguistics. Language does NOT have exact synonims: there´s an economy in language where a word is made only if needed. The beating you talk about involves, beside of what you explain, hathred and incapacipy of parent control. Spanking, on the other hand, can be done (and it is usually done) in a calm way while explaining the reason of the punishment. I remember the first time I spanked my granddaughter. She was maybe 6 months old. She was brought to my house by her parents for me to take care of her and I pleaded many times to them to buy those plastic whatever they are called for the electric plugs. In my country we have a deadly 220 watts. They didn´t buy them, I couldn´t go and the baby crawled ALWAYS to them. I said No a thousand times until I decided that the next step was needed. I said NO, plus a small spanking in the hand. She cried a bit, but never did it again. My son in law made a speech about persuasive methods and I responded I prefered a live baby. My granddaughter loves me and I don´t see any speciall flaw in her life for that and another merited punishment I did to her. Happy posting!

I agree that spanking is fine. I do spank my child from time to time it is always on the but and just once. I do not beat my child. I tried other forms or punishment but they did not work the thing that get though to her is spanking. As she is getting older and I can explain more to her I tell her she can stop a behavior or she will get a spanking. This works. I know with me when I was a child spanking did not work so I was just sent to my room. If spanking did not work I would not use it. I have tap her hand before also when she is touching things she shouldn't with some kids you can explain and talk until your blue in the face it won't work so it does. I do not think that it is cruel. I think more people need to do it or find some sort of discipline for their children. There should be punishment when you do something wrong. There isn't a lot of that anymore. That is why there are so many terribly behaved children.