Do you believe spanking is an appropriate discipline for a child?

Do you believe spanking is an appropriate discipline for a child?

  • no

    Votes: 61 36.5%
  • yes

    Votes: 106 63.5%

  • Total voters
    167
as we approach the holidays, I must inject this bit of family lore.

One Christmas morning, my much loved, indulged, petted upon husband was slapped in the face...

<snip>

Except for this one day. It will live in infamy. It's long running joke that just gets better with age. "Don't do that, you'll get slapped on Christmas!"

I would love to hear a Christmas carol based on this. :D

God rest ye, merry gentlemen, be careful what you say!
Remember that the chosen one was smacked on Christmas Day!
 
I would love to hear a Christmas carol based on this. :D

God rest ye, merry gentlemen, be careful what you say!
Remember that the chosen one was smacked on Christmas Day!

*INSPIRATION*

Someone, someone more poetic than I, should make BDSM Christmas Carols!!!
 
i'm against in theory but i wonder if that's impractical

You know, I've always thought that spanking kids didn't do anything except teach them that hitting is the way to solve problems. And I remember clearly back when my father spanked me, that he did it more because I'd pissed him off rather than from a sense of trying to instill in me a sense of right and wrong. So definitely if parents are spanking from anger it's a definite no-no. But now that I'm older and I see annoying kids running around restaurants or screaming in stores, with the parents saying softly "No, No, Jacob, we don't bother people while they're eating," and then promptly ignoring the child while he continues doing the same thing - I can't help but feel like telling the parents - Ok, enough already - either put the little bastige in his seat or take him home. I sort of have this feeling that parents are getting worse and worse about holding their kids to a standard of behavior, and I have to wonder if the trend away from corporal punishment is the cause of that. On the other hand, I don't think kids have to be spanked to be good kids, so I guess I'll just put it down to poor parenting.
 
I feel there has to be a balance between words and actions, and between anger and patience, regardless of the kid's age. Looking to my own family, I have some cousins who never saw physical discipline, only "no, don't do that" and time-outs: they grew up to be *the* most selfish and arrogant crybabies. I have other cousins who only knew physical discipline and was yelled at: it's no wonder they beat people up when they don't get their way.

Then there was myself, never spanked or got in trouble from my grandparents (whom I lived with), but once got slapped in the face from my dad: I wound up closer to my dad, and respecting him more, than my grandparents, and though I too grew up to be a spoiled brat, I managed to learn self-discipline as an adult. Then, there's my own kids, whom I have tried to give a balance with everything, and though they argue at times, I have yet to meet *anyone* so kind, loving, caring, and giving as them... they might not be the sharpest knives in the drawer, but they shine brighter and more true than any other.
 
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