To Beat Your Kids Or Not?
For thousands of years, parents have spanked, slapped, whipped and pinched their children. In some cultures, it’s making them cut a “switch” from a tree to be beaten with, in others it’s a sandal removed from a grandmother’s wrinkly foot. And for as varied as we are as peoples, there are as varied forms of corporal punishment. But is it the right way to go? Is physical pain a proper discipline technique or does it simply teach the child a lesson about solving problems with violence? Does a spanking make a child more obedient, or more inclined to violence?
What are your thoughts? Spare the rod and spoil the child? Or teach your children to talk it out?
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if you provide them the right environment where they can grow-up to be a good man that would be possible, and we could prevent our children to become a spoiled.
I think this can be done occasionally when your kids takes it to the extremes.
Something wrong about following a certain moral code because of fear of punishment. We have seen this over and over when kids turn into teenagers and they become so violent themselves. Literally by spanking a kid, they will be bitter to the parents and forget why they shouldn't have done that something considered to be wrong.
We shouldn't forget that too much spanking for a long time can sometimes raise kids with some personality disorders like sociopathy or self esteem issues.
I dont think so in fact violence in any form has failed in long run
100% spanking makes children more obedient personally i was stubborn but my mum would spank a lot even the slightest mistakes but at school i would fear to commit crimes that would lead to expulsion since at the back of my mind i knew mum was tough so i am what i am now because of mum's cains they really helped and am not violent at all
I was spanked and slapped by my father, however, I think it did not help much or not at all. I just think that my dad didn't know how to do otherwise. Different generation, where they spanked etc. children for no good reason. I think that no extreme in life or if we are speaking about raising our children is not doing any good - slapping or no boundaries. It's not easy, it's a constant battle if you are doing it right or wrong.
peaceful parenting and strong words.
and the occasional spanking
that's the norm
Just because you as a parent cannot guide your kid(s) in the right way, doesn't mean you get to beat the shit of it when they do something against your sound morals ! How would you like someone to beat your ass, as an adult, every time someone deemed your behavior to be undesirable. Not every child can handle physical punishment. And don't be surprised if they grow up to become violent to others or self harm because you were so damn perfect. I think it's a coward and barbaric act, sometimes masochistic... to inflict such pain on an innocent human being who's just trying to find their way. Get a grip!
Sometimes stinging ass cheeks is the only language understood by brats.
It takes a real man or woman to lay hands on a defenceless child. Discipline my ass, if it takes an adult to slap or punch a minor then control is well.and truly lost and there are other serious problems to be addressed.
It is worrying the number of advocates for such corporal punishment. A child learning from a parent at such an early age that stress and frustrations are to be dealt with by use of force is certainly telling indeed.
And to all of you that decry "spaninking did me no harm" the fact alone that you advocate discipline by show of.force shows that such actions did you plenty of harm.
Behaviours are formed in many ways, the right ones take a lot of work and constant reinforcement, corporal punishment is one of the last vestiges of the truly ignorant to societal progress.
I think a father or mother deserves to give punishment to his son, in order to provide education that he did not get in school. so it's natural that the old man hit, flogged, and pinched his son for his education later