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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Older child bit the younger child.  One hard whack with the belt on the behind sent a strong and clear message to the brain:  that is completely wrong.   After the spanking, biting never happened again.   I would say a spanking is as effective as 500 time outs with whining & pleading to be a good child and behave.

Whack!  It works, has worked for thousands of years to correct a child.  I have actually had people come up to me and marvel how well behaved my children are.  I joke and tell them they are afraid of getting beaten half to death so they know to behave. [/quote]

I bet you also smack your kids while saying "Don't smack your younger sibling!"   :roll: [/quote]

No, I have never smacked my children in the face. And my children know you do not hit the face because of the danger to the eyes and nose which are easily injured.  Smacking is more of an insult than instilling discipline and I would not do that.  I have only spanked on the behind, either with open hand or a belt, and only 1 whack to get the message across or to disrupt a trajectory that will cause harm or damage to someone or some thing.

Spanking with repeated hard blows so that it becomes a beating departs from correction and becomes abuse.  Spanking is a form of discipline.  For us, it has worked.  I have not had to spank them in years because early on they knew I meant business when i told them not to do something.  Now when I tell them, "You are not to do this"  they obey, because they know I don't spank without logical cause, and they know what goes along with willful disobedience.  Pavlov would be proud of me.

It is called "Setting Boundaries" so that children know what is right and what is wrong because they do not know, they have to be taught.  Children who grow up without boundaries are the kind who think they can just shoot someone and take their shoes, or go into a store and take what they want off the shelf without paying.

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Many people are perfectly capable of "setting boundaries" without spanking their children.  The fact that you can't think of an alternate method to discipline your child in various circumstances is ridiculous.  [/quote]

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