What do you think of physical punishment?

I spank but not hard. It gets my kids’ attention really quick. It lets them know I’m serious. Then I tell them what they did wrong. So it just has to be something you do gently not over-doing it. At the end of the day I still get “I Love You’s”. Just know that you don’t hit in rage and you don’t make your kids fearful of you. That is another ballgame.

does someone want to tel my mother this, I was thinking to myself the other day that one time, when we use to use phrases like ‘man you stink’ and I said it to my mum as a joke and she hit me,along with lots of evry occasions,shes hit me in school before and evrything its just not right

I agree. I do not think that hitting a child, slapping a child, or spanking a child is the answer. I find those parents hypocrites to teach their children that violence is wrong and then they punish them that way. There are WAY more other ways of disciplining a child without ever laying a hand on them. I would never lay a hand on my son.

I think that it just makes a child resentful, if you go past that. is it really right to go farther with it if a kid is STILL misbehaving, even if they keep going after getting slapped? like slapping them in the face, slamming them down in a chair for timeout, hitting them. and if they get bruised from it, but the bruise is small, its still a bruise isnt it? or is this just an overreaction? I don’t know about you, but I think that parents can go wayyy too far with it. and does that count as beating?

Some kids are unruly and need to be spanked. I don’t think parents should hit their kids anywhere else but on their bottoms though.

Taken beyond the children, there are only two types of punishment offered in the USA - jail or capital. In Canada, only jail. Neither one really seem to work. I believe that a little corporal (physical) punishment might go a long way.