[american colleen]

Never had to spank my kids, thank God. My dad did it to us and all I remember is hating him for it, being humiliated and just hiding bad behaviour better in the future.

[Knock3Times]

Never had to spank my kids, thank God. My dad did it to us and all I remember is hating him for it, being humiliated and just hiding bad behaviour better in the future.

I find the ten reasons given by Gregory K. Popcak, MSW, LCSW to be quite unpersuasive. They actually sound like the type of revisionist "historical Jesus" garbage that drives me nuts. On the other hand, your two short sentences make a lot of sense.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

My dad did it to us and all I remember is hating him for it, being humiliated and just hiding bad behaviour better in the future.

I had that and worse. I do not believe in spanking. It is far too destructive. There are better ways to guide children.

[rmichaelj]

I have two young kids. Usually if I have to use physical punishment it is more to "get their attention" because they won't listen to what my wife or I am saying. Having said that, I don't like spanking because it seems to give the impression to the kids that it is OK to hit somebody else. I usually give a firm squeeze on ther shoulder until they stop yelling/screaming/throwing a fit. After that we usually do some kind of "time-out" punishment or take away a toy. Works well on younger kids that you can't get their attention any other way. And as my oldest gets older (she is 3 now) I now hardly ever have to do it. Anyway, just my experience as a Dad, no scientific research to back it up.