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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never spanked my three, now teenaged, children, and none of them has ever caused my husband and I any disciplinary problems at home or school.  My Southern, rural, high-school educated parents, never spanked me, or any or my siblings.  We were well-haved children.  My parents have told me as an adult that they made a conscious decision not to spank us since  they harbored hard feelings for what they still believed to have been unfair and unwarranted spankings they suffered from their own parents.  In particular, they felt their parent soften  spanked them out of frustration, anger, or for things they didn't actually do.  [/quote]
By your own definition, you were all well behaved kids so your parents didn't feel that spanking was warranted.  I do think many parents do spank out of frustration/anger, but some of that comes from the child repeatedly not listening, and no other forms of discipline working.  I'm not saying there aren't those parents that use spanking as a go to, because clearly there are, but not all parents who spank do so as the first resort.

I'm sure you know, not all kids are the same, not all kids respond to the same forms of discipline and/or punishment.  I know one parent who uses going to your room as punishment for an ES kid, but that kid doesn't care and doesn't see it as punishment.  No surprise then that child repeatedly gets into trouble for the same thing.  Obviously, this form of discipline isn't working, but the parents keep using it.  Opposite sides of the same coin.  [/quote]

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