Were you smacked as a kid???

As i kid i was smacked, i hated my parents at the time for doing it but being a kid, you soon get over it! I think the rules in different countries vary with things like this. Here in Australi they want to bring in a NO SMACKING rule which a lot of parents are annoyed about - it's basically the government coming in & telling you how to raise 7 discipline your own kids. I think it's a personal choice, it also depends on what sort of thing the child has done. Very hard topic :)

Yes I was smacked and whupped, and I is still here. Kids need discipline in order to know their limits. I do not believe abuse, but if they need a smack then that is what they should get.

I was never smacked as a child, my parents only had to give a look and I can honestly say I think the fear of disappointing my parents was enough for me, I don't think smacking is the answer.

We were never hit at all as children. Well maybe slapped on the hand as a toddler but that's about it. I don't really think there is a need to slap, smack, spank whatever you want to call it. We were always taught to use words. I can even remember my mother telling my youngest brother at 10 mos "hush, you are interupting the conversation"...lol and he did. I was 20 at the time and laughed at her..she said "hey..I raised 4 kids so far, how many have you raised?" She started teaching us manners and respect from birth according to her...hehehe I guess it worked we all grew up and stayed out of trouble.

My parents were "old school". They didn't care what anyone said, if we acted up, we knew that we'd get one warning then we'd get taken outside. I really honestly think that is one of the major problems today; there are no repercussions if kids act up. They get grounded for a week but that's nothing if they still have television, video games, the computer etc. I got slapped one and only once and it wasn't that hard but I got a nosebleed and yes, I milked that for all it was worth lol. We had fear. If we were told to be home at a certain time, we were there two minutes early. For the longest time I thought my mother had some sort of weird power; she knew exactly where I was at any minute of the day and if I left that safety zone, she knew about it. I don't think there is anything wrong with a smack on the rump; if you exhausted all other avenues then you really don't have much of a choice. I don't condone child abuse but I have seen some kids that are holy terrors and their parents just don't seem to care. Ignoring them is one way to deal with it if that is what the child is doing to get attention but to just "not care" really gets under my skin.

No Jan- I have to say I wasn't. My parents were what I guess you would describe as "hippy", "New Age" type people - they didn't agree with violence of any kind, so I was never smacked, and I have to say I would never smack a child or an animal either. If I was naughty as a chid I was just chut in my room, no dinner, and they didn't back down, so I was punished, but never in a physical way.

I got swats, on the bottom, sometimes with a hand, sometimes with a belt, sometimes with a switch. My folks were very particular, though, that the bottom was the only place for spankings. For parents who are not out of control, it probably is okay to do this, but I found that often it made me feel out of control, and angry when I had to resort to spanking. There are times, and I believe that it is when children are very young, that you need to get their attention fast. Spanking is often how that is done. Again, my opinion. When I was very pregnant with my second child, and my two going on three year old son learned how to get out of his car seat and out of the car door before I could get my seat belt off, I put a switch under my driver's seat. I explained to my son that a car would hurt him a lot more than I would, and if he continued to jump out and run in parking lots, I WOULD use the switch on his bottom. If memory serves, it happened once.

I too would be paddled for misbehaving and I learned quickly to not do those things. I was a snart kid that could learn. I am alwys amazed at those that keep getting paddled. We need to start with the kids to make our world a better place. This method is not a bad one and anyone that refrains surely does not want to avoid bigger problems later.

I used to but soon was too tough for mom to use hand so got wooden sppoon then they woudl break and after that she just gave up. It was not that bad mostly it was casue i was a holy terror and outta control sometimes.

I was spanked as a child, but I totally deserved it. I was a very very VERY stubborn child. My parents tried other methods, but the only thing that worked for me was a good old-fashioned spanking, with the tsinelas or a wooden spoon, of course. Honestly, they never bruised me. The point was to give me a good sting, just enough to remember it for next time, so I would think twice about doing something. Of course, when I was old enough to understand, and not be as stubborn, they stopped with the spanking. I don't see anything wrong with a little spanking here and there, especially if the child is like how I was. But, I don't agree with child abuse. There is a line. My parents never crossed it, thank goodness. And, I never grew up afraid of living in my own house.