RE: The Many Harms of Spanking in Less than 200 Words
Anything can "damage" a brain. You are being a sensationalist once again @sterlinluxan. There is a difference between spanking and child abuse. Spanking can be benefitial as Dr. Jared Pingleton, a clinical psychologist points out.
If spanking was that harmful to the brain, our species would never have survived since it used to be the traditional form of discipline—and in a much harsher fashion imay add—for millenia. I am against spanking but I am also against one sided, over simplified, 101 psychological arguments for the sake of popularising "common sense" subjects.
When you touch these issues, especially with the hand of semi-pseudoscientific psychology, always make sure to provide the opposing arguments as well. It is impossible to make a controlled experiment on the subject. Your assumptions can hold no basis even if you manipulate statistical data to your liking.
For example this study demonstrates that they can do better in school. It comes to direct conflict with your "brain damage" post.
Physical Stressors can help a living being by making it stronger. Surely you won't beat the crap out of someone to make them stronger, but some form of punishment with physical warning works. Same stradegy applies to exercise. Just because you feel a bit of lactic acid burning your muscles, it doesn't mean you are really hurting.
P.S: Recycling your old posts in this manner is really pathetic penny grabbing technique. Like I said. You earned a place in my shit list. Be very wary of the generic nonsense you post in the future.
Violence can be beneficial?
Mmmmm. Ok man. Sure thing.
Read again @gregoryschneider . I never said those words. Don't be yet again another anarcho-douche
And spanking isn't violence because we do it to basically defenseless children who don't want to be spanked, as opposed to adults whose behavior we dislike, who could actually fight back.
Anything can be considered "violent" @danarchy . I might see something on tv, get offended, get a "trauma" and consider it "violent" because I am under a "defenceless" social context.
Spare me with this form of politically correct language. I can turn your argument back at you. We are talking about informative, planned spanking. not straight up beat up. Please don't be one of those imbacile nooby anarchists that gets triggered with every single thing.
PS: Check spanking free sweden breeding a nationa of brats.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/10421246/Swedish-parenting-has-created-nation-of-brats.html
@kyriacos are you also teaching your children to be scornful of people who disagree with their views?
The Time article linked is thus:
Dr. Jared Pingleton is a clinical psychologist and minister and serves as the director for Focus on the Family’s Counseling department
From the 'About' section of Focus on the Family:
Focus on the Family is a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive. We provide help and resources for couples to build healthy marriages that reflect God's design, and for parents to raise their children according to morals and values grounded in biblical principles.
The "it damages the brain" argument made me chuckle: strange notion of anatomy :P
But I agree with OP that it banalizes violence and teaches the children that it's OK to use violence to assert authority. There is no need to make a controlled experiment to reach that conclusion: it's elementary logic. Small children learn by observing and imitating the behavior of their parents.
Anything can "damage" a brain...If spanking was that harmful to the brain...
So, are you trying to claim anything can damage the brain, or that spanking isn't "that harmful" to the brain?
our species would never have survived since it used to be the traditional form of discipline...You are being a sensationalist once again @sterlinluxan
The term "brain damage" does not suggest that initiating force against children with no physical or emotional defenses would lead to the extinction of our species. The intellectual failure you demonstrate here disqualifies you from lecturing anyone on "sensationalism."
It is impossible to make a controlled experiment on the subject...For example this study demonstrates that they can do better in school. It comes to direct conflict with your "brain damage" post.
You exemplify a simple idiot when you attempt to discredit someone else's sources by saying the results cannot be verified for lack of a control group, and then offer up sources that cannot be verified because they didn't have a control group.
Physical Stressors can help a living being by making it stronger.
Then sign your kids up for soccer or football instead of hitting them.
some form of punishment with physical warning works.
It only works for lazy parents. For people who actually put effort into communicating and negotiating with their children, there's no need for physical violence.
Just because you feel a bit of lactic acid burning your muscles, it doesn't mean you are really hurting.
From a violent, caveman style perspective you're probably right. However it completely ignores the psychological and emotional damage that children suffer at the hands of the people they have no choice but to trust. It doesn't matter if your intent is to hurt them or just teach them a lesson, the only thing that matters is what it looks like from their perspective. They might learn their lesson, but they also learn what it feels like to be physically and emotionally betrayed by the first person they've ever trusted not to betray them.
You and your silly shit list will have to find space on the shitty-parent list that the non-violent members of society have to constantly drag around with them. Do the world a favor, don't breed anymore.