Posted on 11/06/2017 2:15:54 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
Any such study is depending on the answer to a question about which the truth cannot be known. Since nobody knows who is telling the truth when parents answer the question about whether they spank their children or not, any conclusions drawn are speculative, at best.
What God says is good enough for me, quite frankly. My my own personal opinion is that physical discipline is a perfectly legitimate form of punishment, albeit I believe its efficacy is closely related to it being used only rarely, in circumstances when severe punishment is called for. This was definitely the case for my own childhood, and I can attest to the fact that the tiny handful of times that I was spanked, it was for a severe transgression.
Anyone who attempts to dogmatically pronounce that spanking is bad or wrong is an absolute fool, IMHO, and is substituting their own wisdom for that of God. In today's PC culture, of course, those who spank are often seen as child abusers—a characterization which I reject with disdain.
Nobody but God is going to tell me how to raise my children, and when government treats spanking as child abuse, it's a sure sign of a Tyrannical, out-of-control Nanny State...
Sorry for the triple posts...having a problem with the PC.
I think that is a lot of the problem with millennials today. Every one of those videos where those millennials are basically throwing tantrums because their candidate didn't win--they learned that that behavior is acceptable, because their mommies never taught them different. When a little kid throws a tantrum and finds out it does not work, he doesn't do it again. But when his parents bend over backwards to get him what he wants, then he gets the idea that all he ever has to do is throw a tantrum and the world is his. The behavior may be tolerable in a 2 year old, but not in a 22 year old.
Mine had paddle. It looked like a little cricket bat. What was worse is when we went camping and we screwed up, my mom would use a little branch.
I make it sound like we were beaten, we weren’t. I probably got the paddle twice. I got the green branch more than that...that think stung like a [expletive deleted]. The trick was to move away from the swing...my brother would just run around. That really pissed my mother off. I laughed at them.
yes and if not curbed by 2, it will continue through 22 and beyond
No more McClintock for you.
My wife is an early childhood educator. She can tell which children have never been spanked - they are the biggest behavioral problems.
She can tell the children who have not been DISCIPLINED.
Well put; that’s exactly how I described it to my wife: Do you want to deal with this now or when they are teenagers?
Don’t give that line of caca
I am a conservative lawyer who did not spank my kids and my kids are very good people.
God never said for a big powerful adult to assault a little kid, you are wrong
thank you, I get so sick of these self righteous prigs stating that they know god and god says to spank your kids
they are in college dude, where you want them to end up
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