Spanking; Yay or Nay

I do not particulary approve of hitting children... or anyone else for that matter. But the fact of the matter is that both children and adults fear someone who might hit them. And fear is a very strong form of persuasion when you want someone to behave. You might never need to hit your child once in your life. Because the simple fact that the child knows that you have the right to hit him is enough for him to comply with your request. But when you remove the rights from parents and teachers to discipline the kids physically... your are throwing the doors open for anarchy. The kids know you cannot touch them and will abuse their freedom. Take the law for instance. If you break the law by speeding in your car... you get a $200.00 fine if caught. You know that the risk of being caught is very real... but you still do it. Now imagine that the penalty for speeding is a good beating by the cop who catch you... I bet you that 90 percent of us would never speed again.

I don't believe in spanking my child, everytime someone tells me I should (I did a discussion on this and someone suggested it was because he was out of control-he wasn't), I get tears in my eyes at the thought of him having physical force against him, at any age. I wasn't spanked, so I don't understand why people think that it has to be done at some point, there was never that point with me. So I agree with you!

I do not believe in spanking children, my parents never spanked me and all three of my brother and sister have come out to be worthy people. Those who spank their children need to check their Blood pressures, it must be abnormal for which children suffer.

here in sweden that has been illegal since earlie 70´s i think and swedish kids are doing just fine without it. Actually spanking is even considered to be childabuse over here.

I have never used spanking as a means to discipline my child. Although I grew with my parents being spank at times but I saw that it never did any good at me in my childhood except that it made me afraid of many things. I was onyl forced to do things becuase I am afarid of the things and only realized that later in life what it really meant. I guess the best thing you should do is always remind your child what is right and what is wrong if he keeps in making the same mistake it only means you have to reinforce more to make him realize that he is wrong. Spanking is the fastest way but he would never realize the importance why you are disciplining him and will cast a lasting inury in his personlaity.

I am glad that this legislation is proposed. I think parents should not hit their children, and I hope that with this many parents take the time to learn more effective ways of caring for their children.

I give my kids a good belting. I think i'll stick with the old fashion ways. Something is wrong with kids now a days and i think it a lack of old timey lickins

I think spanking is only a last resort. When a child is too young to understand time out, or have prviliges taken away, then sometimes, a no isn't sufficient. I don't believe in hard spanking with anything, other then your hand, but i don't see anything wrong with a slap on the butt. I don't know what the purposed legislation is in Calif as I am not from there.

hi , interesting , my 1st thought are if child knows that they will not get physical discipine , then growing up to be young adults know that will not get physical discipline? (the UN has declared Los Angles a War Zone? .. 1000 killings is a state of war in a year - please correct me if i am wrong) Oh i am totally disagreeing on excessive physical discipline. cheers davidja