Wow! Just think how smart I would have been if my parents hadn’t spanked me!!!
More garbage.
I was spanked regularly.
Was in Gate in elementary school, graduated as an Electrical Engineer.
The lack of spanking and discipline is one of the reasons we have such an entitled (over nothing) couple of generations coming up.
We’re linking IQ and spanking? Naw, there’s no agenda here.
For issues such as this I always consult the wisdom of Monty Python; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXT_IOt81Xs
I was a firm believer in using love, logic and reasoning in directing my children’s behavior when they were younger - but first I had to get their attention LOL
I’m against it. It teaches children that their parents are willing to physically hurt them. That’s bad.
I see one line statements with weasel phrasing like “the study suggests”.
The smartest people I have known were subject to corporal punishment both at home and in school.
I detect the complete lack of any pretense of balance on the part of the presenter.
I cannot be expected to find such a presentation persuasive the the slightest. It reminds me of the vegan people who pretend that they are concerned about my health.
If that was true, my IQ would be what it is today except there’d be a minus sign in front of it.
Nonsense.
Careful, measured spanking can be a valuable and harmless disciplinary tool if used sparingly and appropriately: to impress upon a child the danger of a situation; to correct cruelty; against strong defiance.
Discipline must be administered with discipline, never in anger or disproportionately.
All that being said, there is the occasional child for whom spanking is completely ineffective. In those cases spanking would be counterproductive.
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Spanked? Hell, I got the crap beat out of me.
“Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. / Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.”The final word on the subject.
— Proverbs 23:13-14
“The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.”
— Proverbs 29:15
You ripped off my profile.
Proverbs 13:24 New International Version (NIV)
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Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.
Hard to refute centuries of wisdom...
Arthur, do you have a child/children ?
I’m smart enough to remember when my dads enthusiasm was getting geared up..........we all made it!:)
My father used psychological warfare against me mostly.
I’d have preferred a good spanking, and just get it over with, rather than endure disapproval.
Mom spanked... And it pained her more than it did me.
The only way spanking would lower IQ is if you literally had your head up your @$$, and they used a wooden paddle.
My parents were strong believers in spanking and my IQ is in the 99.4 percentile. Think how smart I’d be if they never laid a finger on me! LOL!
Principal Kelly had a baseball bat the the wood shop had planned down to a flat surface. It was to be feared. If you got three licks from him do not tell your parents. They would call Mr. Kelly and ask why it happened. At this point you would probably get more at home.
I deserved them. I guess I could have been in Mensa instead of just 130 IQ. "I coulda been an contender." but Mr. Kelly beat 10 points off my IQ.
What passes for psychology today is mostly bovine scat with a few scientific words to confuse and are still bovine scat.
My father used physical discipline—say, a belt—perhaps twice during my entire childhood, and I assure you that in each case it was eminently justifiable.
One thing I'm certain of is that it's patently asinine to adopt a dogmatic stance against the efficacy of spanking. Additionally, physical discipline of children is specifically sanctioned in the Bible, and therefore "outlawing" or stigmatizing it is in overt defiance to Biblical authority.
Whether to use spanking as a form of punishment—or not—is totally up to the judgement of the child's parents, and the State has no business whatsoever is telling parents how to raise their children—unless and until there is compelling evidence of some sort of abuse occurring.
Adopting the attitude that physical discipline is illegitimate or abusive—or that it automatically produces negative outcomes versus the lack of its use—is the height of nanny-state interference in the parenting process...