After all I read about how much British love spanking, they suddenly want to ban it! :D

 

I've never been hit as a child, and I grew up.. Well, let's skip this part. Spanking (or its absence) has nothing to do with it, I'm just a bad person by nature :(

However I feel there must be some freedom in parenting including spanking too. Just as Pavelow ans Hystery said, when it turns into beating, here comes the law. 

 

Travelling with this speed soon even berating a child will become illegal (or other restrictive measures. For modern kids turning the Internet of is an equivalent for a torture)

But it's still a completely backwards viewpoint with no real evidence to back it up.

I was never hit as a child, I'm 21 now. By Pavelow's logic I should hate the police, be downright abusive and have a criminal record, but I don't?

 

The majority of children that are (as my dad calls them) tomorrows criminals are that way because of bad parenting. If you raise your child poorly, to the extent where the only things they really learn are that abuse and violence is ok, then all they are going to know is exactly that, and then they end up on the arm of a police officer being dragged to a police car in hand cuffs.

 

If you teach your child correctly at the right age instead of abusing them, they learn correct morals and behavior as a result.

 

Example: Child throws a tantrum because mum said "no you can't have that". Do you slap it in the face and tell it to shut the fuck up? No, you calm them down explain why they can't have something (for example you can't afford it) the child instead learns that money is not infinite and that screaming wont get them what they want. They then grow up to better control their finances and respect their parents when they try everything they can to treat their son/daughter despite not being very well off.

 

Shouting, threats and abuse are all signs you've lost control of the situation. And I will never agree with the "need" to abuse someone. Ever.

 

Oh, and on the subject of "punishment" I agree, but abuse isn't a punishment it's abuse.

"Punishment" might be 2 hours without your toys tonight for throwing a tantrum. Or a prison sentence because you broke the law.

 

 

Very well said ! , 

I was never spanked as a child and I don't think I could spank any children I might have in the future.  I think this is something that should be handled within the household and not government.  Every child is different in the sense that some may respond positively to being spanked and some may respond negatively to continue the inappropriate act later on in their life.  

 

Basically I think it shouldn't be handled by the government unless the punishment (in extreme cases) becomes abuse.  Lets the parents do their job how they find fit.

God damn clickbait title >:(

 

 

I'm against hitting a child. Or anyone for that matter. If you can't control your kid to the point you have to hit them you're a shit parent. No two ways about it. Get better at parenting and maybe you wont ever need to hit them.

Now i like like you even more, Luke!

I was spanked as a child, and yes, it DID teach me what was right and what was wrong. I don't believe that a child is really going to sit down and listen to what you have to say. Slight pain is a way to show them that something is wrong, and it also makes them fearful of doing it again. And for people saying that spanking a child is what bad o

parent's do, you're wrong. My parents are great, and they spanked me.

 

Now kids just do what they want because they know that they'll just get talked to and not get a punishment that really affects them.

Violence Is Never the Answer!

Violence Is Never the Answer!

 

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Yes, people are taking it way too far. I'm not talking about beating a kid. I'm talking about spankings, or whips on the butt with a belt. There's nothing wrong with that. There's a reason it was used for centuries.

 

I felt like it was a game of Telephone where people started talking about beating as in violent, instead of spanking as in corrective. I got spanked as a child and it taught me to think before I acted. Also in addition to the spanking I was told why what I did was wrong and that it shouldn't happen again. Education along with the spanking is more powerful IMO than just a spanking and go to your room, and never mention it again. 

 

No one is right or wrong for saying kids should be spanked, heck people shouldn't put their hands on other people period whether its a child, adult or elder. However in some cases it is warranted. When I have children, I do think I will spank them for wrongdoings. 

LOL!

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