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This is the problem with universal spanking. You did it right to explain the punishment, Many parent spank in anger and beat the child and call it spanking. How do you "regulate" spanking? We have some that don't want any spanking, and others that believe anything is OK as long as they don't end up in the ER.

I think as long as they are warned that a spanking is coming for certain behaviors, and then the spanking is given as punishment instead of some sort of revenge, then the child will learn boundaries. How you regulate parents that are out of their freakin minds is beyond me, but not allowing corporal punishment gets you the brats we have today.

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Granted I’m not happy when my child is a brat. How do I “regulate” spanking? There’s a tolerance threshold, for sure. We now have narrowed appropriate behavior down to two rules. Obey Mom and Dad, and Respect Mom and Dad.

We were on a three ticket limit and then he goes into time out. (I never thought it would work. It does) We’ve now gone straight to timeout. If misbehavior continues it’s up to the room - and it may be a while. If boy mouths-off to Mom (big no-no) He goes to the woodshed for a talk. We employ the Andy Griffith method, lol.