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Post by AnimalAvenger on Aug 4, 2009 2:24:46 GMT -5
What is your opinion on spanking children?
I personally do not believe in it, even though I've been spanked a considerable amount of times and still am every once in a while. I believe it is only a device to control children using intimidation.
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kcares
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Post by kcares on Aug 7, 2009 9:32:41 GMT -5
I'm completly against it. Mainly because one of my friends had an abuzive mother that used to spank her in front of me. (she was also verbally abusive to me, so that just adds to it)
I've never been spanked, but my dad always tells me stories about when he was a kid...so ya
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Post by Black Dove on Aug 8, 2009 20:37:06 GMT -5
Against it! It hurts, man! Why would I want to hurt my kids? (I don't have kids, FYI) LOL
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Post by dynastygal on Aug 16, 2009 19:43:55 GMT -5
Negative and positive reinforcement, not violence.
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GYARADOS.
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eat like you give a damn!
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Post by GYARADOS. on Sept 24, 2009 16:17:19 GMT -5
humans have always had such an... addiction, it seems, to violence. i've never been spanked by my parents. but my step-grandfather did BECAUSE I SUCKED MY FINGERS. all it did was make me hate him. i never respected him either, only feared him.
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squirrelgurl07
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Post by squirrelgurl07 on Sept 25, 2009 1:25:13 GMT -5
Im a mom of a son I lost to SIDS when he was 4 months old. But this much I know a small pat on the butt and a firm no works wonders. Please dont attack me *holds up hands* there is a considerably LARGE difference between abuse and simple spanking. The parents who whip the tar out of their children now that yes is abuse. But my brother when he was smaller nothing worked on him my mom tried everything. Finally the only thing that worked was spanking him and that was the ONLY thing that got through to him. I worked in several stores and it bugged me to no end when Id see parents tell their children if they counted to 3 and the child was still misbehaving they were going to leave. The child would stop and as soon as the mother stopped counting and went back to shopping they started in again. To me this is merely teaching them how to get around a punishment. My sister in law also raised her oldest this way by talking gently to her and such and now that shes in HS she gets in all sorts of trouble and has anti authority issues. Its a subject that will continue till the goverment once again tells us how to run our lives and tells us not to... before we know it theyll be telling us what we can and cannot eat  |
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Post by whirrs on Sept 25, 2009 6:34:38 GMT -5
squirrelgurl07 I highly doubt that the reason why your sister in law's daughter gets into trouble and has anti-authority issues JUST because your sister in law talks gently to her.
I see your point though, and I suppose I'm okay with other people spanking their kids as long as it is done gently and as a disciplinary thing.
But I don't think I could ever do that to my kids. It's just not the right way to get to them. You'd send a message that you dislike them, and I personally think that kids should never be made to feel that way. Love's the way to go.
If they don't listen or are rebellious, there has to be something else wrong, not because you don't hit them.
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