And they say the pain isn't going to stay forever.

 

I DO mind discipline though, hitting your kids does not mean that you are spoiling them. There are other ways of punishment besides bring out the belt.

 

http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/nm/spanking-kids-can-cause-long-term-harm-canada-study

Omg! This has always been my excuse when my parents spanked me when i was young.....

Omg! This has always been my excuse when my parents spanked me when i was young.....

 

You were right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmJDVRDRTQ

Well I got knocked the shit out of me as parental punishment when I was a kid.

Yet I still skipped 2 years, started studying at a university with the beginning of my 18th year of age and my intelligence is way above-average.

 

Plus I am disciplined and respectful when it comes to my family.

 

 

Edit: I totally support disciplined parenting. If the child does not respond to verbal punishment etc. it has to learn to behave with pain as it's teacher.

I am seeing way too many disrespectful, ungrateful, raging little brats who get everything they want and I just want to kick them in their little midget faces.

BULLS**T!!!!! i got spanked when i was a kid and i still ended up ok, sure i don't do the best in school and i could actully do better if i actually studied better but still, i still was able to graduate a year early so im calling big time BS on this

The article made me chuckle. I've been spanked with shoes, belts and clothes hangers...and of course teh hand; and I did not turn out stupider than I could be *lazier, if anything*, nor do I have any substance abuse issues....not to mention any anger issues, I act more la~di~da/durpy happy. Psh, I don't even hold any resentment/anger toward my parents/grandparents for it, that's sooo 10 years ago~. >3> If I ever do have kids, and they are acting up or doing something really really stupid...I will give um a good smack, I'm not gonna sugarcoat or lie...I am. But what I do not support is hitting the kid badly enough to cause actual trauma/bodily harm, that's going too far.

I'm also calling bullsh*t on this.I was beaten with a belt and smacked upside the head so many times i got TMJ now.However, I graduated high school at 16 and was tested at a gifted level of intelligence. However, I do not agree with such physical force being used to modify a childs behavior.

I agree with most of what Grimmjow said.

I'm no psychologist, but excessive application of force is probably the issue moreso than the spanking itself. The article also doesn't mention how education might impact the results. I don't think it's entirely wrong (especially regarding the findings of increased aggression.) but the methodology, and especially lack of specificity keeps me from taking it as truth.

I've been hit before, and still do on occasion, only if I mouth off or something. I just get a typical slap to the mouth, but if it's something like insulting my own mother or father, then the belt or clotheshanger gets involved.

I was spanked plenty of times, yet I am still in Honors English, probably going to be in Honors Algebra II next year, and find school to be pretty easy. I think, maybe, that perhaps the kids that get spanked the most often get the punishment because they aren't exactly that sharp to begin with.

 

I find spanking as a perfectly acceptable punishment, as long as other, less extreme punishments are attempted first. Sometimes people just don't understand something until they get some sense smacked into them.

 

There is a difference between spanking and child abuse. Spanking should just be hard enough to cause pain, but shouldn't leave anything but some temporary pain and red marks at the most. Any lasting pain or injury (such as a bruise) shouldn't be acceptable. If parents are beating the heck out of their kid so they can't sit, just because they talk back, then there is a problem.

That actually explains so much...

I say a good old whopping to your children as discipline works wonders, but going to far won't help anything. Look at the world today and kids the ones who don't get disciplined how do they fair in life? and with school? compared to the ones that do

I think this is untrue. If anything, only a blow to the head could harm your learning ability.

Spanking however, I am kind of opposed to.

If a child disrespects their parent it is because the parent hasn't taught them better. The ideas you place in a kids head stays with them for life. You need to teach them at a young age how to behave.

Hitting them several times when they're older will not make them respect you

Spanking is humiliating especially when parents do it in PUBLIC (I've seen it happen) and it can affect the child emotionally/psychologically.

At home, maybe once or twice is okay, but I personally would never lay a hand on my child, but continuous spanking is just the beginning child abuse. Parents sometimes abuse their kids and pass it off as 'discipline.'

I say this because I have been spanked and I've been hit and after that I've had a plate thrown at me and I've been slapped in the face. Numerous times in the past few years.

Not only did all that make me slack off in school, but my relationship with my parents is strained and I have frequent periods where I am just numb.

Not all situations are the same I know, but my basic point is:

Hitting should not be the resolution to a problem.

That's what my parents thought.

I've been spanked, but I am considered smart by people I know. And myself.

Well no wonder I'm so dumb. 8D

 

When I was a kid I honestly deserved it. I hated my younger brothers when they were born. I also didn't grasp the concept that they were alive and not more baby dolls. So I would drag them up the stairs, dress them in doll clothes, and generally be mean. I didn't realize I was being mean at the time, but I always got spanked for it. Then I'd do even stupider things in daycare. The daycare provider had to call my mom and let her know I was talking to the other little kids about the battle of Guadalcanal. Not exactly the kind of things three and four year olds talk about, and it really freaked my daycare lady out. She spazzed and kicked me out of the group itself, so my Mom had to bring me to work with her, because she had nowhere else to put me.

 

Spanking isn't nessecarily bad, and that study is seriously bull. A lot of time the kids honestly deserve it, and I think I was one of them.

There are kids who deserve it.

 

I agree with the spanking method.

 

Although there are some kids who get beat up and don't deserve it.

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmJDVRDRTQ

 

How did I know someone was gonna post this song as soon a I saw the tilte.

A spank on the butt I'm fine with but any other form of beating is wrong I don't care what the parents think.