Smacking Children: Good or Bad?

[radishhead]

Marks said:

spurgeonryan said:

Marks said:

spurgeonryan said:

But like Seece said, "there are other ways to discipline children".

Like what though? I really don't think sending a kid to their room or taking away their Wii for a week is really that big of a deal. 

Smacking!

I think that there are too many children who are abused in the world. Tightening of laws is a good way of helping children who are abused. I am not saying that the parent should go to jail for 5 years because of it. I think there has to be evidence of repeat actions. The occasional bruise from falling or playing is acceptable. Kids fall and are crazy and they play all the time. Now if some abuse is suspected the parent or parents should be mandated to go to parenting classes that they pay for themselves, but the 5 years things is a little harsh. Rules are too crazy these days. I am talking about for cases that are not clear cut. Ones where the kid has bruises on his/her face, arms or anywhere else then the parent obviously was trying to hurt the kid. I rough house with my boys all the time, and they never have bruises or anything close. So for anything like that to happen , the parents must be doing it deliberately.

 

Time outs do not work as well as a Spanking did when I was a kid. And for the kids who say spanking was humilitating or anything else, I say they are idiots and liers. Taking stuff away and denying desert or whatever else is not as effective either. But this is a new world and the old way of spanking with a paddle, or any other form of violent abuse is not acceptable anymore. Again, as a kid in a private school they still had paddles.

So long rambling short, Smacking is not acceptable. Not sure why the OP used the word smacking though. A light spanking is acceptable I think in some cases. But it should be used in moderation, so that the kid does not learn that violence is good.

 

Yeah I just assumed the OP meant spanking as well, not actual abuse like a punch or slap to the face. I just mean a swift slap on the arse. 

That worked better on me than sending me to my room or taking away my playstation. 

Yeah, sorry- lots of people got confused with me here 

In the UK we tend to use the term "smack" instead of "spank" - I mean the same thing xD