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Eagle Eye commented "Reasoning with toddlers. Yeah, right." I think that this is really the line that seperates those who like to spank and those that don't.

I don't like your tone and the fact that you chose to address this without my attention. Was this a simple oversight or do you have a courage deficit?

"Liking" to spank isn't the issue and I really, really find it offensive that you would imply that I enjoy hitting children. I don't "like" grounding children, or "like" making them drop out of a team sport for low academics either, but I have done those things as well.

Since your whole experience seems to be with a single child, I'll suggest that you have only a very narrow and limited view of parenting. My youngest is twice as old as yours. I suspect that if I hadn't spanked when they were young, I'd have more troubles now that I've got four teens.

But maybe I should yield to your whole seven years of wisdom.

I don't like your tone and the fact that you chose to address this without my attention. Was this a simple oversight or do you have a courage deficit?

A simple oversight, I assure you- and I'll assume my oversight was the cause of your beligerence. That said...

I believe that it is not necessary to cause physical pain to make a point. Okay, my son is younger than your child. Does that somehow invalidate my point? Will I one day awaken on his eleventh birthday to find that the foundation of mutual respect and dicipline that I have instilled in him his entire life has been erased? I doubt that.

I also question whether multiple children raised under the same exact philosophy of spanking is a statistically significant population for you to rest your "more knowledgeable than thou" argument on.