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Depends on how you spank them. I'm always against physical objects, and no strikes to the head or face.

spank em til u dank em..
OT: its discipline..spank if u <3 no spank if u </3 ur kids l~

Rather use some 'psychology' to push for desired behavior. ...
Physical discipline would just push some unnecessary trauma or an unstable standing in the parent-child relationship.

I would. Spanking was the only way I'd actually LEARN from my mistakes as a stupid, short attention spanned child. It wasn't exactly painful, but the experience of it made me think twice before I did something that I THOUGHT would get me in trouble.

Theres also the, what I call, "momma stare". Y'know that look your mom gave you that like...shocked your very core and made you behave? Yeah.

Beating kids is dumb. just make them run laps or read a book.

[quote=trueatheist]I got spanked as a child and didn't grow up with any negative psychological effects from it and I don't resent my parents for it or anything, they did it within reason and I never considered it abuse[/quote]

This. I would probably spank my child though.

i'd spank my kids. physical pain is a sure fire way of telling someone what they are doing is bad/wrong. (or at least the spanker thinks so )

Spoiled children are the worst, as worst as the irresponsible parents who raise them.

i'd just put the kid up for adoption

I got spanked as a child and didn't grow up with any negative psychological effects from it and I don't resent my parents for it or anything, they did it within reason and I never considered it abuse.

The literature doesn't support it, but I think it's more of a cultural thing to understand and it isn't something that can just be studied so cut and dry as there's too many anecdotal/subjective variables.

I probably won't spank my kids though, as there are other ways of discipline that don't involve physically hitting them which are just as effective if not more effective.

[quote=shini]Absolutely not. Studies shown physical discipline would cause negative long term affects on children. There are numerous of harmless ways to discipline children and for them to get the point without resorting to hitting.
When you really think about it, why does it ever have to be necessary for you to hit them on the butt when it comes to discipline out of everywhere else. It sounds like sexual abuse. A slap in the face is much different, but still.
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Clearly you don't know what you're talking about. Totally dismissing an idea and refuting it using extremism-driven points and instantly equating physical contact to being wrong just shows your own ignorance. Be realistic. The problem isn't that spanking doesn't work. Spanking done with reasonable technique [b] does not [/b] cause "negative long term affects"; that line far too subjective to hold any real meaning anyway. Physical contact is not wrong by definition. Spanking is [b] NOT [/b] sexual abuse; don't even joke about that, child.

Obviously the problem is how to eliminate the extremist cases, and to define exactly how to judge when someone has gone too far. Spanking is a physical stimulation on what [i] should [/i] be the largest fat deposit on the body, so the child should come to no harm in all typical scenarios.

In the same way I've typed this out for you, I could have also done the same for someone else being ignorant and saying that "inviting children to exercise cognitive development and decision making through discussion is a waste of time", because it's not a waste. I don't know if I would do it if I was a parent, but stop spouting nonsense that you think might justify what you want to push onto other people.

Im all for roleplay with S/Os

Absolutely not. Studies shown physical discipline would cause negative long term affects on children. There are numerous of harmless ways to discipline children and for them to get the point without resorting to hitting.
When you really think about it, why does it ever have to be necessary for you to hit them on the butt when it comes to discipline out of everywhere else. It sounds like sexual abuse. A slap in the face is much different, but still.

And no that guy wasn't right. He was just ignorant. Unfortunately many people with real reasonable problems would get treated unfairly because everyone is ignorant to what the real issue is. I have bipolar disorder and experienced it.

i'd spank my kids, but it's easy for me to say right now because i don't have any kids of my own and i'm surrounded by abunch of spoiled brats. they're so disrespectful that i have a serious urge to just slap them across their faces. but it's their parents who raised them like that, df can i do if i have kids, hopefully i can raise them better so i would never have to resort to spanking them... but if they are seriously out of line, then i would spank them.

I put them on timeout and tell them to think about what they did wrong. Then I ask them if they've learned the lessons or not and to have them tell me what is the right thing they should had done.
They are seated on the floor crisscross and silence by the corner of the wall with nobody given permission to talk to them unless authorized to do so or else face the same consequences. Sometimes they even give me timeouts and I took the punishment like I care so they will know i'm being serious about the timeouts. The saddest part is watching having them look at me with those huge googling eyes full of tears and that mouth that looks like its about to cry. Especially that little fat kid nephew of mine who is only 4 years old and he is so darn cute that whenever I put him on timeout and his expressions show. My heart hurt like hell like i'm going to have a heart attack or something, but Man! This stinks because I wrote this crap on an online forum which no one even bothers to read.

I would not resort to physical discipline.

There's no scientific evidence that spanking has a good effect on children, so if, for whatever reason, I decided to breed, I wouldn't spank them.

I don't think I would ever feel like spanking my children. But I'm not against it.

sometimes children need to be spanked, but I wouldn't hit them with an object

spank like theres no tommorow nah jks depends

i eat all my children <3