What are your thoughts on spanking children

[hyebruin]

I thought he was on his fat mamma's lap and was getting spanked. Poor thing.
That is such a cute baby. Makes me want to go, "Aaaawwwww." Something wrong with the eyes though. Poor baby!

looks like "shaken baby syndrome" (or something like that!) actually that usually results in death! that's when the idiot parents shake the baby so he/she would stopc crying! and cause permanent brain damage and even death!

[sad_eyes]

its sick what some "parents" would do.

[ckBejug]

OH NO A CHILD ABUSER!



The reason why I look cross eyed and why the left side of my face is swollen is because of 1001 mild and very light spanks.

You can all rest easy that this baby turned out just fine. Obvously none of you have seen a one month old baby. Things kind of still settle into place... Also, it's a picture taken at a weird angle. Hey guys, lets try not to make fun of other people's children.

Same baby:

[loseyourname]

I've been spanked from my mother lots of times and that helped me a lot to be a nice, wonderful, adorable, beautiful, amazing, charming and cute girl.

Getting spanked made you cuter? I spank my girlfriend all the time, but I won't do it to my kids. There is too much of a sexual connotation to me. Besides, I'd like to think I could be a little more creative with discipline.

[winoman]

I think who ever here opposes spanking has never actually spent some quality time with kids.

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Spanking a kid is basically telling them that that is the consequence of their actions, so next time the kid does it again he/she will know what the consequence of it would be and perhaps think twice about it.

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I'm not saying that you should spank a 10-month old baby, but a child that can already speak and is able to understand or at least learn that what he/she is doing is wrong needs some spanking now and then. No kid is perfect.

Well said. Yes - there are discipling methods that should be attempted first certainly...but even the most creative don't always work...so spanking (or the threat of it) is an option...and even it may not work - but it has been very effective for us the very few times employed...even the threat is not employed often (perhaps 1-2 times per year if that)...but seems to work very well. Hey raising kids is tough...and to do it right you really need a full bag of tricks...if you can do it without spanking (and we pretty much do) - so much the better - but you will find that kids can be pretty difficult and frustrating sometimes. And I don't advocate spanking toddlers and super little kids - only after you can reason with them and discuss the situation with them. I'm not at all an advocate of indiscriminate spanking and such punishment. Too often such does turn into abuse - I agree.

[gevo]

.... Besides, I'd like to think I could be a little more creative with discipline.

This sounds a little scary coming from you.

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

Spoiled brats need to be spanked and slapped many times until they become -un-spoiled. My grandma used to say "Tsetse Astvatsatur-e" (tsets=spanking)