RE: To spank or not to spank?
September 20, 2015 at 9:33 am
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2015 at 9:43 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yeah, I quietly suspect that people who spank their kids "for not listening" etc....secretly enjoy hitting children.
I jest, I jest. It's easy to hit things that frustrate us, and children are nothing if not frustrating. Spanking is one of those things where a little goes a -long- way, and if a person finds that they have to spank their children over and over for the same shit - it's obviously not working at all. Haven't reached that point myself -and I think it might be due -at least in part- to the fact that I reserve the spanking for a very limited set of circumstances. It wouldn't terrify and/or pain my children into compliance if they were acclimated to it. I've also found that I have fewer and fewer reasons to spank them, individually, as they get older. Makes me feel like a dirtbag when I'm doing it. So....my kids don't want to get spanked, and I don't want to spank them, most of the time we mash our heads together until better ideas fall out, lol.
(I will slap the shit out a hand after-the-fact, though...in the case of "lets stick shit in this electrical socket". Give em a little taste of what it will feel like, hope they aren't interested in more..it's either that or attempt to explain electricity to a small child.....and then hope that this explanation dissaudes them from sticking more shit in the socket..rather than inspiring them to stick -more- shit in the socket. Seen it go both ways just with my 4.)
I jest, I jest. It's easy to hit things that frustrate us, and children are nothing if not frustrating. Spanking is one of those things where a little goes a -long- way, and if a person finds that they have to spank their children over and over for the same shit - it's obviously not working at all. Haven't reached that point myself -and I think it might be due -at least in part- to the fact that I reserve the spanking for a very limited set of circumstances. It wouldn't terrify and/or pain my children into compliance if they were acclimated to it. I've also found that I have fewer and fewer reasons to spank them, individually, as they get older. Makes me feel like a dirtbag when I'm doing it. So....my kids don't want to get spanked, and I don't want to spank them, most of the time we mash our heads together until better ideas fall out, lol.
(I will slap the shit out a hand after-the-fact, though...in the case of "lets stick shit in this electrical socket". Give em a little taste of what it will feel like, hope they aren't interested in more..it's either that or attempt to explain electricity to a small child.....and then hope that this explanation dissaudes them from sticking more shit in the socket..rather than inspiring them to stick -more- shit in the socket. Seen it go both ways just with my 4.)
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