(January 16, 2014 at 12:35 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: It is not necessarily abuse. However, platitudes such as "spare the rod, spoil the child" certainly don't discourage abusive discipline.
I personally have never found it necessary to strike my child in the 12 years he's been alive.
Me either but I am one year (actually about 4 months) behind you with my daughter being 11.
For me it just seems that if I had to resort to physical violence to get a point across then I've lost.
I'm going with the new traditional parenting of irony, sarcasm, blackmail and bribery. Works a treat.
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
