Child Discipline

Yeah, its needed for them to remember that what they're doing was bad. But do it with love and affection that after awhile you explain the reason why and make sure that they understand the the reason.

DEFINITELY NOT !!! I think that no matter what or how wrong the child did, spanking will not make anything right. Hurting a child will not only hurt him physically but also emotionally and it can also have an effect on his psychological development. If he grows up being spanked, then he will think that spanking is a natural thing. Then he can be aggressive and violent to others, and even carry this until he himself becomes a parent. Spanking is not a form of discipline but a form of abuse.

It is! But lest parents or anyone abuse spanking it must be very clear that spanking must be done the right way. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child but the rod of correction shall take it away from him. Only if the child behaved foolishly should we employ spanking. Now simple naughtiness can be cured by words of disciple and whenever a child listens to words then there is no need to spank. If the child becomes to stubborn then that is the time we should spank but make sure spanking is done at the right place. We don't hit him on the head or any part of the body apart from the butt or palm or any safe place we could inflict some pain for him to know that committing grave mistake won't go unpunished. Now if the child can be disciplined without using rod so no problem.

Sometimes it's necessary but I think it should be more like lite spankings so it's more or of an inticipation thing and makes them think about what they did I also don't think it should be used daily or more than one or two given at a time. Time outs work great!

I never smacked my children as I learnt early on from a child psychology course that any attention is good attention. I don't think smacking teaches kids that violence is ok as it certainly didn't affect me. Totally ignoring bad behaviour was a brilliant tactic, extremely hard to do but worthwhile. My kids are now 18 and 19, both doing brilliantly in education and employment, and have grown into lovely young women. It was hard to ignore the bad behaviour when it happened, but nothing was ever repeated often as it gained no response from me, and served no purpose for them. It's definately worth a try because from what I've heard smacking doesn't really achieve anything, and also leaves the parent feeling guilty and awful.