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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for the parents that spank but have a problem with the nanny doing so: why did you decide to spank? Do you believe there are other equally effective methods? If yes, why hit your kid? If no, how do you expect the nanny to do so without also spanking? Genuine questions. The logic truly baffles me and I'd like to hear good reasoning for it. [b]Btw I am a nanny that would never lay hands on a child, and was raised by parents that "spanked" in the sense that if we pissed them off we were beaten black and blue. [/b][/quote]

Me too, and that is why I will never spank.

If you hit your spouse you'd go to jail, yet hitting your child is encouraged?  Children need rights to protect themselves from physical punishment.  [/quote]

Most of us that see some positives from parents deciding to spank are not advocating the parents beating their children black and blue though! We are talking about slapping them on the butt a few times, for things that deserve a more extreme punishment than a timeout gives (especially if the timeout is ineffective and keeps needing to be done over and over again).[/quote]

It can be such a fine line though. There are tons of other methods out there that work not just timeouts. What teaches a child about consequences is CONSISTENCY not force. Spankings teach them to fear that specific consequence, which is not a natural consequence. As they get older, no one is going to spank them if they talk back, if mommy is tired/in a good mood/not around I might not get spanked. I am the PP that said my parents often took it too far. All that spankings taught me was to behave around my parents, be a better liar, and hide things well. Imagine what a joy I was as a teen, my parents all the while convinced I was an angel![/quote]

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