Spank Your Kids Before Its To Late

I agree.
We caught an eposode of the nanny the other night. These people had what they called the Wacker. Eack kid had one hanging on the bedroom door. When they misbehaved they got the WACKER!
My mom would use anything in site. Sometimes a slipper or even an umbrella once.
Kids need their backsides warmed up when the misbehave and then maybe they would think twice about it next time.
I see kids hitting their parents and MFing them in public.
I wouldn't have had any teeth left if I cursed at my mother.
There was no Dad so what she said went!

...because fear is easier to earn than respect and easier to enact than good parenting. Bravo.

"My father spanked me and i turned out just fine.'

{chuckle}

you should all have been spanked. you wouldn't be mouthy liberal pupets NOW!

I think I disprove your statement, bob.

I didn't get spanked........I got beat with a belt that had a diamond pattern carved in it. My mother would hit me with that belt any where the belt hit my body. Across the face, back legs, neck. She would swing wildly. Then I would get it again when my stepfather would do it again. Maybe they are getting beat where ever they went when they died.. You spank your kid today or even yell at them and you could go to jail for it. If anyone complained abouit it..

Is this serious or a joke? I honestly can't tell. Mostly because of this comment:

"you should all have been spanked. you wouldn't be mouthy liberal pupets NOW!"

That would explain conservatives to me, however. They were all spanked a lot as children apparently, ergo the anger, quick to jump into war and vitriolic outbursts at liberals. ;-) That was a joke, btw. I was spanked once by my mother but apparently I was smart enough to never be spanked again. LOL

I would've liked it better to get spanked.

One time my dad was dissappointed with my behavior. He gave me a good and hard swift kick in the ass. Now my mother, on the other hand would'nt let me out all weekend. And many times longer than just a weekend.

Please spank me real quick and get it overwith so I can go out!

i beleve its a waste of enternet !!!!its dumb!

Your premise just doesn't hold up. I too was spanked plenty. It did not teach me that being bigger and stronger than someone else gives me some moral or intellectual superiority over them. Parenting is a hard job, and sometimes my folks were just too busy or too frustrated to explain why - for example - I was wrong to climb a cliff without a rope. What the spanking taught we was to not get caught; being taken to visit the family of a kid who died in a fall would have made me save up for a rope and climb with a partner.

Rob, if you really want to enlighten people, I recommend you,

1) think before typing and

2) work on your English.

I'm keeping you in the Humiliated Conservatives group because you take the sort of humiliating positions that have made many of us leave the Republican party in recent years. I will have to remove the occasional title because I don't want newcomers to get the wrong idea about the purpose of the group.

By the way, I like lesbians as a rule, and no those women on porn sites are not lesbians.

As a child I was never spanked, and I turned out okay. I know kids who were spanked and they turned out okay. A spanking alone does not make or break a child. There are so many other factors that need to be taken into account. Is there a proper balance of affection along with the discipline? Is there a time of communication before and after, so that the parent is not just spanking to "get his mad out". A child is not nor has ever been meant to be a punching bad by parents who do not know how to express anger. Having worked with abused and neglected children, I can tell you that with enough spankings, the child learns to totally tune them out to the point they lose any effectiveness whatsoever. I am not totally opposed to spanking. But I believe it should ALWAYS be the last resort, and be done very sparingly.

Bob..I have to say that if I was a child, I don't think I would want to be spanked by you. You seem to harbor more than a little bitterness and anger. Best go find that punching bag!

The track record of resorting to violence is clear and unequivical as a solution to solving our problems. More violence, yep that's just what we need ....more violence.

This article was just ignorant. I am not going to bother offering a reasoned rebuttal do the argument that brutality to children is somehow the answer to all the world's ills.

Gretel, have you been talking to Lyrical?

SPARE THE ROD SPOIL THE CHILD, eh? A good beating will beat "that fairy shit" right outta that kid!

A lesbian master sounds kinda sexy now that you mention it.

I was spanked as a child, and it turned me into a liberal puppet!

i agree spank your kids i do if my kids missbehave but i use a belt or a holed paddle holes close together

I think that spanking is on of the most disgusting things imaginable. What on earth would possess you to strike your child? There is NO difference whether you say its a "swat on the bottom" or a spank. Either way you put it, what you are doing is hitting. People try to soften it by using terms like "swat" to make themselves feel better about what they are doing. Spanking does not work, and here are the following reasons

1. What you are doing does not teach your child a damn thing. When it comes down to it, you are frustrated and taking that out physically on your child, you just won't admit it. Seriously, how many times have I been in Wal*Mart and seen some parent repeatedly say, "Johnny, get back over here," then finally get mad and hit- I'm sorry, "spank"- them? More than I can count

2. One of the big responsibilities of parenthood is to train you child. That sounds a little bizarre, but if you train them right from the beginning, you should have very little urge to smack your child

3. Exactly what are you teaching them other than to fear you? Are you sitting them down and saying, "Now, Johnny, mommy is going to hit you because she loves you!" and then start spanking with a big grin on your face, completely 100% without any feelings of anger? NO. You hit your, and they don't understand, especially small children. Even so, say your child is, I don't know, 8 years old, and they are acting up in the store. You yell and hit them. What kind of role model are you? You get down to the kid's level and explain to the the dangers of reckless behavior, and then remove them from the store. THAT is TEACHING. Your job as a parent is to teach and guide. Quoted by Michael Marsall, PhD, "The word discipline, comes from the root word disciplinare —to teach or instruct. What do we teach when we use corporal punishment?" Which brings me to my next point

4. Spanking is an act of laziness on the parent's part. You are too lazy to teach them right from wrong, you are too frustrated with them so instead of removing your self from the situation and taking a breather, you spank them in the name of discipline, and you are too lazy to actually think about what you are doing

5. It's not even your right to spank your child, but that's too long to get into, so go to http://www.wethechildren.com/spankingenglish.htm

I think any one who hits their child should rot in Hell. It's not okay, what in the world makes you think it's okay? Because you got spanked and turned out fine. That's the same answer everyone gives. And don't even try to pull that "kids are brats these days because no one spanks." Read some literature on the subject and you will find that since 1950, spanking has only gone down 9%. Also, don't say "you're 19, wait til you are a parent and you will understand." I have plenty of experience in child-rearing, definitely NOT saying I know everything and that I will be the perfect parent. That is unrealistic. I have raised my 17 month old niece since birth, I have worked in a preschool for underprivileged children with emotional handicaps, and for two and a half years I was a private tutor for children and young adolescents with learning disabilities. I know what it's like to get frustrated with a child, I know what it's like to want to pull your hair out and scream at them to shut up. Take a breather and consider what you are doing before you do it, that's all I can say. And seriously check out http://www.wethechildren.com/spankingenglish.htm

Meredith, I like that you have alternatives included. And things to back up your ideas.

I am all for spanking - but what's with the gay bashing? What did they ever do to you? And WTF is wrong with sharing your feelings? My husband does that with our kids because he's a good father and wants them to know he loves them. I think you might have underlying hate and gay issues. Just my two cents.