Spare the rod, spoil the child

[Jacob(smooth)]

Jacob, do you think smacking would have made your morning any better?

YES. It would have ended the argument right then and there.

I'm sorry, but violence for submission's sake isn't the way, be it physical or verbal. Spanking (or yelling at, or demeaning, or swatting) a kid is essentially just telling him or her that you have physical or mental dominance over them. It's not even really discipline. It just instills a symbolic fear, no matter how you go about it. IMO, discipline should be a learning experience, and kids don't learn while they're being humiliated.

I think its very important that kids know that their parents DO have dominance over them. There is a recent fashion to treat children like little adults and they are simply not. Sometimes you have to be able to say "you will do this because I know better than you and I say you must". More than that, I think that they WANT their authority figures to be dominant. It gives them a sense of security, that someone is in control. They don't have to understand the world because there are people who protect them from it.

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Jacob, do you think smacking would have made your morning any better?

YES. It would have ended the argument right then and there.

I'm sorry, but violence for submission's sake isn't the way, be it physical or verbal. Spanking (or yelling at, or demeaning, or swatting) a kid is essentially just telling him or her that you have physical or mental dominance over them. It's not even really discipline. It just instills a symbolic fear, no matter how you go about it. IMO, discipline should be a learning experience, and kids don't learn while they're being humiliated.

I think its very important that kids know that their parents DO have dominance over them. There is a recent fashion to treat children like little adults and they are simply not. Sometimes you have to be able to say "you will do this because I know better than you and I say you must". More than that, I think that they WANT their authority figures to be dominant. It gives them a sense of security, that someone is in control. They don't have to understand the world because there are people who protect them from it.

Yeah.. weetabix.. i would not eat that shit too... Try not feeding your kids a brick and maybe they will want to fucking eat...

I agree. Nasty shit. But they DO get a choice and that was what she chose . The other options being cornflakes, rice crispies, cheerios or toast.

It had fruit in it if that helps.