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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was beat as a child (beat, not spanked) with switches, belts, over the lap, etc. whenever I did or said something my mom didn't like. I was smacked across the face (the most humiliating feeling of all), grabbed, shoved, you name it.

Some would call this child abuse, but almost every kid I knew at the time got the same treatment, oftentimes worse. What I remember more than anything is not the physical abuse, but all the emotional and psychological abuse, and neglect I endured. If I had to prioritize, the beatings make the bottom of the list of what negatively impacted me the most.

I always find these threads interesting because so many people are quick to deny spankings, etc. feel proud that they successfully use other sources of discipline, but what has never been discussed (at least that I have seen) is the emotional and psychological abuse that I'm sure most of us have or will impose on our kids -- in one form of another without even realizing -- which in my opinion, is just as much, if not more, damaging.

Btw, DH and I do not want or see spanking as part of our arsenal of discipline strategies, although we have swatted on the hand or handled a little too roughly out of pure frustration. We always feel guilty afterwards because we both recognize that those moments are less about discipline and more about our inability to keep our cool. Thankfully this rarely happens.
[b]I believe that the way you were raised is the right way, this generation is doomed. No respect and yes respect is beaten into people not coddled[/b]

:shock: I guess you didn't read the part where I wrote that I was also emotionally and psychologically abused.

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