Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 23:23     Subject: In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Anonymous wrote:
NP here.

Just chiming in to say that spanking doesn't have to be the end of the world, and sometimes solves problems in a less-traumatic way than what parents resort to, ie, yelling, nagging, or enduring months or years of the bad behavior.

Like all parenting, it has to be done judiciously. You have to know your kid. You have to choose your moment, be in control of your emotions, correctly explain what you meant by it later on, etc. It's not the same as randomly hitting your child every time you're feeling lousy.

Of course people who are scared of the world and like to simplify it with black and white thinking will not like this point of view.


No, PP. Disciplining a child by the use of physical pain is always 100% wrong. It is black and white.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 23:04     Subject: In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay

NP here.

Just chiming in to say that spanking doesn't have to be the end of the world, and sometimes solves problems in a less-traumatic way than what parents resort to, ie, yelling, nagging, or enduring months or years of the bad behavior.

Like all parenting, it has to be done judiciously. You have to know your kid. You have to choose your moment, be in control of your emotions, correctly explain what you meant by it later on, etc. It's not the same as randomly hitting your child every time you're feeling lousy.

Of course people who are scared of the world and like to simplify it with black and white thinking will not like this point of view.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 22:59     Subject: In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Study finds spanked children more successful in life.



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/6926823/Smacked-children-more-successful-later-in-life-study-finds.html


I suspected it. It's common sense.


Ridiculous.


+1 Read the link for a good laugh. No data, just opinion by some professor at Calvin College.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 22:57     Subject: In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Anonymous wrote:Study finds spanked children more successful in life.



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/6926823/Smacked-children-more-successful-later-in-life-study-finds.html


I suspected it. It's common sense.


Ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 22:16     Subject: In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Study finds spanked children more successful in life.



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/6926823/Smacked-children-more-successful-later-in-life-study-finds.html


I suspected it. It's common sense.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 21:52     Subject: Re:In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Anonymous wrote:Still spanking over here.

Raises hand
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 20:16     Subject: Re:In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is shocking to me that people still spank. Horrific. How redneck - that you would try to call it anything but physical abuse is absurd.


The vast majority of parents spank. It's not "redneck", it's universal.


As the saying goes, sometimes you just have to apply the board of education to the seat of knowledge.


That is truly pathetic, PP. A old pun to cover child abuse?
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 20:06     Subject: Re:In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is shocking to me that people still spank. Horrific. How redneck - that you would try to call it anything but physical abuse is absurd.


The vast majority of parents spank. It's not "redneck", it's universal.


As the saying goes, sometimes you just have to apply the board of education to the seat of knowledge.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 20:05     Subject: Re:In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
The concept of hitting a toddler or preschooler with the sole intention of causing that little being physical pain is truly appalling.

To the one poster who condones this barbaric practice - seek help.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 20:04     Subject: In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m laughing, because this generation of unspanked, overcoddled children are the ones committing school shootings and mass shootings. The generations raised so “abusively” didn’t.


Interesting point.

Higher levels of anxiety and depression, too.


This seems more relevant.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 20:04     Subject: Re:In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Anonymous wrote:I honestly don't know how any loving parent can raise their hand and hit their child - on purpose - with the sole intention of causing that little kid pain.

It is so barbaric and cruel. You want you little ones to be in pain... It is so disturbing.

I was never spanked or physically hurt and I turned out fine. My three children are successful, loving and amazing adults and I never hit or spanked them and none of my children are hitting my grandchildren.



This. Me, too. I am a grandmother who was never hit and never hit my children. Both of my daughters are loving, accomplished and generous women with loving husbands and sweet children. I cannot even imagine hitting a small child.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 20:01     Subject: In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Anonymous wrote:I’m laughing, because this generation of unspanked, overcoddled children are the ones committing school shootings and mass shootings. The generations raised so “abusively” didn’t.


All of the shooters were spanked as children, OP.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 20:00     Subject: In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Anonymous wrote:I’m laughing, because this generation of unspanked, overcoddled children are the ones committing school shootings and mass shootings. The generations raised so “abusively” didn’t.



So you think the shooters in all these horrific murders would have been okay only if they had been spanked? Seriously?! And you have no clue that they all weren't spanked since 95% of families spank their little kids, right?
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 20:00     Subject: In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
Anonymous wrote:I’m laughing, because this generation of unspanked, overcoddled children are the ones committing school shootings and mass shootings. The generations raised so “abusively” didn’t.


Interesting point.

Higher levels of anxiety and depression, too.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2018 19:53     Subject: In case anyone still thinks spanking is okay
I’m laughing, because this generation of unspanked, overcoddled children are the ones committing school shootings and mass shootings. The generations raised so “abusively” didn’t.