How do you feel about parents spanking their child?

Spanking can be an excellent form of discipline, IF it is reserved for punishment for a dangerous action that could lead to serious injury to the child or to others. After I spanked one of my children I hugged them and told them the punishment was for their own good and added how much I loved them.

Discipline is the instant willingness and obedience to all orders, respect for authority, self reliance and teamwork. The ability to do the right thing even when no one is watching ... . " --United States Marine Corps.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed.

Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period. - Antonio Gramsci.

While the word discipline is often used interchangeably with punishment, these two words are not synonymous. Discipline has a Latin root- disciplina "instruction given to a disciple,". Properly, discipline speaks of teaching, of training.

Punishment is a consequence of not following rule and standards.

So, do I support spanking as a method of discipline. Absolutely not. Do I support spanking as a consequence of my child breaking my rules which are laid down to assist in his growth to becoming a responsible adult, citizen, father, friend; absolutely.

And what is the parents' guidelines in this transaction? Never, never spank your child when you are angry.

I'm with Rosie. I spanked my daughters very very few times. It was never more than a couple of swats, and it was to wake them up and convey the sense that they were doing something which was seriously dangerous and could have injured or killed them.

They were never ever spanked for simple bad behavior.

I also agree with rosie nd bonestructure I mean my parents whooped me and it hurt no doubt but it kept me from doing alot of things I shouldnt have but you have to know what to let slide and not let slide and the age of the child also affect how they turn out to be if you start the disciplin at the being to talk stafe just a spank on the hand firm but lightly show 'HEY DON'T DO THAT" and then if you start early later on you dnt have to dispilne as much.

I find spanking my son does nothing. He is hates being put in the corner in a chair though so we use that. I do think that their is a huge line between beating and just spanking children and spankings are much needed in today's society.

Time out's work in my house though so I don't have to spank him.

I find spanking an obsolescent form of punishment. Do we still use branks, iron maidens, pillories, and other Colonial forms of punishment? I think not!

(Earlier, I thought of bending his arm behind his back beyond 90º as a good substitute for spanking, but I'm not sure if that would work well. Your opinions? ).

Maybe mandating chores reserved for older family members might do it. Also, possibly replacing his XBox720 with a Super Nintendo console (or an original NES if he's extra bad) might get him to shape up.

I think grounding him to 50 or so pages worth of work might procure the needed results as well. (With the added stipulation that he gets at least a 90% average throughout all his problems.).

I believe that every parent should spank their child for discipline because thats how I was brought up and In my area its always the ones who didn't get spanked who end up losers or in jail and with HUGE problems. For example My cousin is a major spot on a college football team right now he just graduated from highschool and his GPA is a 4.0 and he was the main one in the family to get spanked the most because he was always into something bad when he was a child.

I Was spanked. I hated it. I do not believe in it.

Although I cannot alter how the world disciplines its children. I would not do this to mine. These people have their free will to do anything.

I have my free will to do anything as well. So I choose to do positive things. Things that I would like others (and my kid If I had one, included.) to do for me in times of need.

I am with you suzy. People can do whatever they want. But you should not let them force you to do the same.

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