pros and con of hitting a child?

Answer 1

PRO, to teach them a lesson
CON, against the law
LOL

Answer 2

Pro-there is an age range, something like between 18 months and 6 years when that is what they respond to the best. Prior to that, they don't have the mental capability to connect the spanking to their behavior. After that age, they should be given "consequences" (time out, removal of something favored).

Spanking, or a swift hit on the butt may be the only way to thoroughly reinforce safety rules, like don't run into the street, but should be reserved for survival issues only.

Con-teaching them physical violence is a solution. Parents will often resort to that option because they are lazy and unskilled at parenting. Unskilled parents more often spank or hit in anger, bad.

Never strike or shake a child when you are angry. If you feel compelled to spank, do it after you are calm and when they understand why. Once they are verbal and can understand, showing profound disappointment in their behavior is often enough for the sensitive child to want to improve.

Answer 3

Hitting a child is not the same thing as disciplining a child. When you fight you hit to hurt someone. I don't know anyone who was not spanked. That seems to prove that spanking as a form of discipline in not a bad thing. It seems that when people got the idea that spanking was a bad thing that children begin having much more discipline problems. The biggest problem today is that many parents don't know the difference between hitting and spanking. They just want to hit the children when they are angry at them. Spankings should never be given when a parent is mad. If other forms of discipline work instead of spanking then that is fine, but most kids have to be spanked from time to time.

Answer 4

There is nothing wrong with spanking a child or smacking hands for the purpose of dicipline, as long as you back your actions up with an explanation. Beating a child, and hitting with the intention of hurting, is wrong.

Answer 5

Pros, of course not.

Cons, you name them.

The main cons are:

They lose self-respect, self confidence.
They will be hitters as well
They will become dangerous
It's not fair that a so called grown adult hits a small kid, just think about the difference .

Among 2,000 more reasons . . .

Answer 6

ask yourself this one.if your child gets into trouble and you hit him is it ok if he hits someone he thinks did wrong.?after all you hit him for the same thing.so bascially you taught him hitting is ok. Taking stuff away and grounding is so much more effective

Answer 7

There are no pros. Why would anyone think that there are?

Answer 8

Pros = none
Cons = more than I can list.

Answer 9

spare the rod, spoil the child. just look around at the little brats...Dr. Spock phooey

Answer 10

pros
- children are small and soft and aren't good at fighting back
- lots of fun
- lets out anger very well
- teaches them a valuable lesson
- can't protect them forever; they'll get hit sooner or later anyway
- valuable boxing practice

cons
- neocons tend to get pissed when you hit children