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[quote=Anonymous][quote]BBC1 is assuming that everyone spanks their children.   Must be something in the bible about that. [/quote]

Why, indeed there is:

Proverbs 23:12
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

BBC1 here,

This wisdom from the bible always supersedes any nonsense handed down by psychiatrists who declare you will damage their precious self esteem if you spank them. No you won't. My children are proof that it won't. My children have learned clear boundaries between right and wrong and their self-esteem is fine. People have actually come up to me in public and said, "Your children are so well behaved", leaving unsaid "whereas so many other children are not."   I joke and say, "Yeah, they are well behaved because they know they'll be beaten half to death if they act up!"

When a child will not listen to instruction and becomes willfully rebellious, then you must make the child associate pain with disobedience. If you wait until they are teenagers it is too late, especially boys who become largely indifferent to pain.

I never spank my children if they do something wrong unintentionally, or by accident. They get a verbal warning not to do that. 99% of the time that is sufficient. It has been over 4 years since I have had to spank my youngest child for anything. I have spent enough time with my children that they know what is right and wrong for most things. Since they were toddlers I have read the bible to them at night before bed, including the 10 commandments.  I am very proud of my children when they come to me and ask first, "Is it okay to do this?"  Rather than risk doing something wrong, they ask about any rules so they won't disobey them.   I have set them on the right path.  Unless they fall into the bad crowd of drug users, I do not see my children growing up to be a Trayvin "No_Limit_*gga" Martin.

Only when the child willfully rebels after being told it is wrong do I spank.  It is not a "beat them to within an inch of their life" sort of thing, it is one sharp, swift whack with a belt across the buttocks, leaving no mark or bruise.  It is not the pain that shocks the child, it is the realization that they cannot just do whatever they want and get away with it.  They learn that good actions receive good consequences (A's on the report card bring a reward) and bad actions receive bad consequences (biting your brother after you were told not to brings swift judgment upon your butt).

Children learn real quick not to do bad things again, sort of like a Pavlov's dog.  I see a lot of children (and adults, especially mouthy feminists) these days running around like dogs that have never been trained properly.

Spanking works better than multiple, usually meaningless time-outs where (usually) a mother tries to be democratic as if the child is her
equal, begging and pleading for the child to be good, saying "and Mommy will give you candy if you be nice and don't do it again my sweet precious soon-to-be whiny adult snowflake."

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