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[quote=Anonymous]I was spanked a few times. I actually spanked my kids more than I was spanked as a child.

I remember as a child both the angry swat in the moment type spanking, and that could be a little bit scary, as well as the measured, judicious, over the knee spanking. The second one was not scary, but it was effective.

That is the spanking that we used with our kids when they were a little bit younger, and it was effective when warnings or other consequences were not.

The data and studies that people cite purporting to show adverse effects never attempt to control for any factors like type of corporal punishment, context, frequency, inherent disposition of the child, socioeconomic factors, or a thousand other variables. They see it only as a binary factor, and to draw conclusions from that is absurd.

A spanking administered after a child has definitively crossed a line in behavior, that is delivered dispassionately, not out of control, where it’s conveyed before and after that this is a consequence of his choices and behavior, is extremely effective and not harmful.[/quote]

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