Thoughts on Physical Punishment of Children?

[lightskin jermaine]

I got a 3 year old and sometimes I'll pop his hand or butt with my hand if he keeps fukking up. Idk how some of these parents already spanking their kids at that age

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Because if you put a kid in timeout, you'll never need to do it again. Or take away their video games you'll only need to do it once in their entire lives right?

I’m not saying you never need to do it again. Parenting involves persistence. Constantly physically harming your child is not good. If you can bring yourself to hit them constantly, you can develop patience to provide a different discipline.

Then the kid goes on to hit other kids. The other kid tells a parent, and the parent says “hit them back”, which is necessary, because if you allow people to hurt you, they keep doing it. Look how excited the other kid gets to hit the first kid back. It’s a cycle.

Don’t get me started on parents who sit there, and allow their kids to terrorize other kids, or don’t watch their small children when playing with other children.

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

As an absolute last resort yeah I would.

 

[Alvin]

I'm for it. In this life, somebody WILL or will TRY to put hands on you. It's best to learn that from parents as a correction for bad behavior.


I said this before on here but that's white kid's problem. Them weirdos grow up with no "spankings" and the minute they get to Jr High and someone pushes or punches them, their whole world shatters. They don't know how to process it so now they're ready to shoot up the whole school

moreso lack of discipline whatsoever, even getting grounded, a talking too, etc they never get, so they think things are ok when they act out and look at you stupid when you respond in a way they don't like.

 

[UnQuantized]

Can't think of a scenario where I will strike my own child, I'm too laid back for my own good.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Not sure. When I think about my own bad behavior as a kid, I'm not sure how much spankings mattered. I didn't get many and was generally a well behaved kid. I remember getting spanked with a glue stick for the first time and saying fukk that shyt, not happening again. But if my parents had instead taken something from me as punishment, for instance computer access or grounded me, I would have felt the same way ("not happening again.").

The more effective thing to me was the way my parents made us do chores. Every week each of us was responsible for cleaning a part of the house - one week I'd be vacuuming, my brother would be on the kitchen, etc. The only way we could watch TV or play outside was if ALL the chores were done first, meaning one sibling could fukk it up for everyone if he/she didn't do their job. There were weekends where we barely got to do shyt because one of us half assed the chores.

So I think I'd instead focus on limiting my children's screen time (TV, phone, tablets), making them do chores, prioritizing homework, and making fun stuff (playing outside, watching a movie, etc) dependent on finishing homework too. If someone's acting bad they're grounded. I remember getting grounded on family movie night one time and feeling like I had been sent to hell. Entire fam was watching the movie while I was in my room fukked up lmao.


that was worse than any spanking...