Corporal Punishment - Discipline or Abuse?

  

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/20/corporal.punishment/index.html

Feel free to go read that article if you must but either way my opinion is about to be posted.

Personally, I think these human rights groups need to do us all a favor and move to a little island somewhere that they can hash out their differences while their own children turn into criminals.

I’m so sick and tired of reading about people whining and complaining and comparing spanking children to ‘beating’ them. PLEASE. There is a HUGE difference between beating your kids abusively and handing them down some discipline via a smack on the rear-end. The same rules should definitely apply at a school as well though.

Beating Kids -> BAD
Whippin some butt -> USEFUL

No wonder this world is so screwed up. There aren’t any painful consequences for your actions when you’re a kid anymore so you don’t think it will ever happen. *rolls eyes*

All these “activists” are the same - they have to have something to complain about… constantly. Just mind your own business and leave people alone. If someone needs to spank their kid to get a point across, let em. Not all kids can be talked out of or convinced with empty threats that ransacking the dvd’s or pouring milk on the floor because it’s ‘fun’ is not okay. Geez.

With all things though, moderation is key. ok, so I just laughed a little to myself over that comment but it’s true. A 5 yr old misbehaving suffices just fine with 1-3 pops on the butt. 3 is reserved for something serious and 1 is used for a reminder that *YOU* are the parent and *THEY* are the child.

For the record, my daughter is loved by all, behaves herself, is polite and does what she is told to do 95% of the time. I have NEVER gotten a bad report on her wherever she goes. I can count on one hand how many times she’s been spanked because every time I’ve told her she was getting one, I followed through. Granted she’s spent some serious time in a corner too, but a nose in the corner just doesn’t cut it all the time.

While all kids aren’t a model child like she is and granted my next kid will probably be a tiny terror, consistency is the key. If you punish a child by following through a threat, they get the point otherwise they don’t take you seriously. Most of the time that punishment can be a passive one but sometimes you need to be able to up the consequences a little. Having consistency is key so I’d have to say, what they get at home, they should get at school - minor, put you in the corner… a little more up there, spank em!

If all I had to do was spend some time in the corner for killing someone, the highways would be empty. *big grin* You get my point?  

For a quality rant on this because i’m too tired/lazy to write one… check out Myke’s take on things - he says it well.

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