Parenting through corproral punishment...

I have always tried to avoid spanking and never have had to with my children very much. The thing is I do believe there is a time and a place for spanking but it must fit the "crime". For instance I have spanked with my hand only and on bottoms only if what my children did or were doing was dangerous. If a point had to be gotten across sternly then I have not hesitated. I cried after those occasions. My middle son pushed my buttons far more than his brother, but for reasons that we only now understand. I think parents have to pick and choose thier battles. But keeping them safe for me often warrented that old adage "spare the rod spoil the child."

i belive smacking your child on the leg or bum is fine but people can also take it to far. you just need to make sure you smack them because they have done something wrong and not because your angry my three year old gets smacked if she is naughty and she is learning pretty quick now i hardly smack her at all. i see no point in yelling at your kids or putting them in a naughty corner you can only do that so much before they start to think well if this is all that is going to happen who cares my kids listen to me when i go out and they do as they are told and then you see parents who cant control there kids when they are doing the grocerys because they keep thretening to smack ther kids but never do (kids are little not stupid) as if there not going to keep doing what there doing if there mother or father dont follow through on what they say. but i also belive you can start smacking your child only when they understanding what they are doing . i hope i didnt offend any one but thats just my opinon.

Well I do believe that every child should be punished for what he or she does so as to teach the child that it is wrong it is not good to hit them all the time as I do believe that we have to try other methods first before hitting them as maybe the other way will work then we would not have to hit our children.