chrystalann2004

hitting is not alway the best answear
because when they get to be older they may strike back at you
raise child in the this time is very hard to do.

and for a single parent when you are one around i notice when you do all the disaplen
and don t like what done or said they yell or scream for other one that not around
that make any parent job alot harder on there nerves and sometime take toll on your body as well.

but try and find something that want
and award chart for that day
it can be cand or movie or what ever they intest in
they 4 star or smile .

but that what i do

Sazzy

If you were caught swinging what ever you have in the house at a child then anyone can call social services have your children taken away and you will be going to court. In Britain even smacking a child is child abuse. You can get sent to court for such as a thing. That is also why I will use smacking as a last resort. There are plenty of ways to discipline a child without using the last resort. Shout or raising your voice is part of showing how dominant you can be. So its mostly like I use that as I don't shout often but I can raise my voice pretty loudly so the child will surly know when I am angry.

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I believe it's all in how far it's taken. I, too, was spanked throughout my childhood. At that time, I was afriad to do wrong, then they stopped and started "grounding" me. That meant nothing to me. But, the times I was spanked, somtimes it was taken too far. My dad would just get so pissed that he'd forget the reason he was doing it for. My brother had to go to the hospital a few times because my dad got to carried away.

Still.... I'm for it. I think it's a good thing if the child knows the reason he/she's being punished and it's done, not out of anger, but of caring.

abc

its sometimes a good thing a little spanking teaches children a lesson or two
But sometimes parents like to carry it to the next level.
For example some parents beat their kids in the streets. Do they have any idea how tramatic that is for ths child? They've got to go home and do that, not in the streets.
also some parents like to blow a simple situation out of proportion and beat the child for no reason.
An occasional beating is good but there are other ways of dealing with situations, it depends on what type of parent u are and if u can handle a certain situation properly
When i was a child i cant count the number of times i got whooped. But i refuse to be like my mother who thinks that beating is ALWAYS the answer.
There are always different ways to deal with a situation.

rematche

hell ya...if the child reeeaaaallllyyyy deserves it. parent deserves the respect of their child for dealing with his or her crap for the past years of their lives. the go-to-your-room punishment routine is crap in my book. punishment for kids today should be done old school.

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There is a big difference between disciplining a child and abusing them. When a child will absolutely not behave sometimes they need a little smack on the butt or something but not to where it physically hurts the child, it is only a little attention getter. I am very against child abuse so of coarse I do not want a child harmed by an over reactive parent, but I do think that certain children need to be reminded how to behave.

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princesslady

I hit my child so hard when she tried to call social services, the girl dialed 919.
-Madea, Tyler Perry

kIDS need to be hit. Shouting only gets you so far. Britain...i couldn't raise my child under brit rules. I would do it anyway. Teach your kids respect then you won't have a problem. But if your kids suddenly grow balls or whatever and think they run the show, knock them back in place. A good whoopen is what they need. You all can say uise it as a last resort. That's your opinion. And i respect it. But to me...a child that done something wrong and knows not to do it and you told them before not to needs an A** whoopen. Hitting a child is my method. So whne i have my baby and she acts up like she lost her mind, my leather chanel belt is going to meet her butt

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Legend

Since this topic is sorta getting dull, maybe it's time to throw in another question. Most of us say "I turned out well because I was disciplined as a kid", but could it be that instead of the beating it was just the fact that MOST of us who turned out well are not a product of a broken family?

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