RE: To spank or not to spank?
September 20, 2015 at 9:56 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2015 at 9:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 20, 2015 at 9:47 pm)Losty Wrote: I'm not saying I think you're a horrible child abusing parent. I hardly know you and I can see that you love your kids. I know kids do stupid dangerous shit all the time. I have kids. But I think spanking is the wrong reaction. It's easy and it works sometimes, but I think it's cruel and unnecessary.
b-mine....
That, is where you are wrong, at least in my case (I make no assumptions about others). It's not easy. It's the last thing I want to do, and even though it does seem to work on those rare occasions it's employed, I'm still no more enamored with it on account of that. It's my parenting equivalent of a nuke. I think that it -is- cruel, it's never a necessity...but if every situation were ideal and every method could be employed without complication or compromise then we'd have no need to discuss discipline, danger, or spanking.....our kids wouldn't do strange and ruinous things, and we, as parents, would always have the best possible response to whatever it is they dreamt up anyway. I don't live in that world, my kids are not those kids, and I am not that parent.
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