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There is a right way to spank!!
I have nothing but contempt for parents who punish or abuse there children out of anger or rage. However, most children can greatly benefit from discipline with the proper use of a good spank using the following guidelines. Sit them down next to you affirming they know what they did was wrong and why. Then tell them that you love them but what ...
Posted to Family by wbaydo on September 26, 2008
Corporal punishment for kids
I do understand why some people would be angry at this article, the reality is that we are parents tend to get frustrated at the inability to get our point across, we tend to forget we are talking to a human being who does not understand or have the ability to grasp our point of view. We parents are responsible for guidance an teaching of our ...
Posted to Family by angrychef2 on September 26, 2008
We’ve done nothing and we’re all out of ideas
I had a neighbor that has a master’s degree in Child Development and she would preach at us with the same misguided and deluded point of view expressed in the article ''why you shouldn't hit your kids''. However, what she failed to realize is that she had the WORST kid in the neighborhood. The child, at 5 years old, would curse at her mother and ...
Posted to Family by hatchedg on September 26, 2008
bad article...
This article makes a few claims that are bogus. What kind of scientific study is that? That paragraph made no sense and is useless. If the parents want to punish their kids from doing something wrong, they have the right to punish them. What is the difference if you yell and put your kid in the corner facing a wall of spiders and bugs and ...
Posted to Family by cheezexcp on September 26, 2008
this is getting ridiculous!
Hmmmm.... I wonder what this generation of degenerates would be like if their parents weren't afraid to discipline them? Probably a lot better behaved! There are children killing each other in our streets! You know why? They have no fear, it's almost like a 'what are you gonna do about it' attitude. What are you gonna tell a 15 year old ...
Posted to Family by seriously? on September 26, 2008
I'm not buyin' what you're sellin'...
Some may believe that it has been ''scientifically proven'' that spanking doesn't work, but not this little girl. I am exhibit A... When I was young, I got spanked a couple times and smacked in the mouth one time when I talked back to my mother. Let me tell you what... that was enough for me. I was a good child all the way through my teenage years ...
Posted to Family by spreeanne on September 26, 2008
Hitting your kids
First and foremost, this article isn't about science. The key aspect about the scientific method is being able to reproduce results, not collect statistics. Any subject matter pertaining to human beings involves far too much variance in too many variables. Science can NEVER prove that hitting your kids is bad, nor can it EVER prove that not ...
Posted to Family by Parsa on September 25, 2008
But what do we do instead?
This is the problem .. if you were raised by parents who spanked you, in the heat of the moment (and believe me, raising kids is ALL ABOUT living in the heat of the moment) what do you do INSTEAD? We learn our parenting strategies from our parents very early .. like before-we-can-even-speak early, and we are required to deal with our own ...
Posted to Family by ariel4thou on September 24, 2008
The good thing about hitting
is that you don't have to do it all the time. I had the displeasure of working as a substitute teacher in one of the worst high schools in NYC-metal detectors, cops roaming the halls, all the same gangs that are in the prisons, etc. I was told repeatedly: you have to lay down the law at first, let them know who's boss and then if you feel like ...
Posted to Family by TripleJ on September 24, 2008