Spanking is NOT a good way to discipline a child?
This is a hot issue, you will get people that are strictly for or against this. The pros of spanking: It gets their attention quickly. It is how we were raised. It gets results. It is not abuse, it is discipline. Time outs don’t work. The pros of not spanking: Spanking is abuse in some people’s opinions. Spanking shows a child that those they love hurt them. Spanking shows a child that abuse is okay. Spanking does not work. All in all the main argument is whether it is abuse or not. some see it as abuse, others do not. It is like a pro choice vs. pro life argument. You have both sides of the fence adamantly defending their side of the argument. I’m sure that there are more arguments for both sides of the debate, but these will at least help you get started. Personally, I spank, but I don’t beat my kids. One swat is all it takes and usually it doesn’t take that. They mind and listen, so for me it gets results. I tried other things first and I still try other methods before resulting to
Spanking is an excellent form of discipline, you have the kids that are well behaved, sweet, plesant, and delightful, who were obviously spanked, beating may be too much, but the kids who get time outs and put in the cornor turn out to be the one’s not taking their parents seriously, cursing their parents out, doing mass killings why because they have no disipline, really what can a time out do, if your mother told you not to go outside until you do your homework, you would probably do it anyway because u know that u would only get a 10 min time out, but if you knew that you would get a spanking you wouldn’t do it.
Are you arguing for or against not spanking? I was spanked as a child and all it did was make me fearful of my father and later angry at him. If a parent needs to spank often then that method of discipline is not working. One spank should get the message across. My husband and I have two boys and have spanked them once each in their lives (they are 10 & 7) and have never had to do it again. They understand that I mean business and respect me for it. Figuring out how to discipline children effectively is a challenge to many parents; all children are different and need different methods to get them to understand what parents want.
I think it really does depend on the child. I’m 17 years old and I’m not ashamed to admit that if I screw up, I get spanked. Talking to children and putting them in time-out doesnt always work. I look around and see these undisciplined children running around who really just need a good pop in the butt to set them straight. If the child is misbehaving then they should get spanked, period. Time out is not an effective way to discipline a child, I myself would love to get a timeout over a spanking, but what would that teach me? Oh if I do something bad I have to go sit in corner, come on people. Hey, spanking is actually better than time-outs or grounding because its fast and effective and you dont have to worry about enforcing it. Most children, if you mention time out, they will pitch a fit, but if you mention a spanking, I have found that it shuts them up in a heartbeat. I dont know about you people, but when I have kids, I’m spanking them if they act up.
When you spank a child you are teaching them its okay to hit others when they do something the child doesn’t like. I used to spank my son when he was little and one day I took a toy away from him and he smacked my rump and told me NO! After that I switched to the time out chair and that worked alot better. He is 11 years old now and has a very mellow demeanor, nothing hostile about him at all.
