Do kids need more spankings????discipline?

Question

I think they do!!! haha I sound so evil, but a lil bit of discipline is better then a spoil and rotten kid!!!

Im not saying to be abusive but to at least show some back bone and not have your kid screaming in the store when he doesnt get candy!!! Spankings should be used but not for minor stuff!

Answer 1

Of course they don't.
Why would I spank kids?
Kids are so sweet.

*Spank Spank*

I mean, they're so adorable why would you do anything to them?

*"Get back here you little spoiled rotten brat twit thing!"*

Answer 2

im a kid and i think that we do need more discipline (my parents discipline me well) because some of the things that kids do, like crying when not getting candy, is really bad and if they are taught properly from infancy than they wont have this problem. i hate going into a store to hear kids whining and yelling! sometimes there is a good reason, but most of the time not. i'll admit there are times when i want things and bug my mom about it, but i dont yell and if i did i'd be getting an earful when i got home. and that helps me to learn not to be a brat. its not evil... not necessarily spanking but definitely more discipline

Answer 3

Some kids can be influenced mentally and others physically.

Physical discipline is situational. For instance, if your kid plays in the street after you told them more then once, how far are your willing to go to get your point across? When dealing with a teenager, it is much easier to take away what is important to them as oppossed to spanking them. If by the time a child reaches age 8, if you still need to spank them, at some point the parent needs apply new tatics of discpline. Imagine being 23, 33, or 60 years old and your parent hit you!! Most of us would fight back and I expect a kid at a certain age to do so.

As a kid I can count on my hand the number of times my parents went hands on me and becuase it happened those few times I knew my parents were loving and crazy enough to resort to that type of discpline if need be.

If your kids don't cry now, you'll cry later.

Answer 4

Good question. What sounds more evil a little corporal punishment or children who do not know the meaning of the word "NO" and selfishly destroy the society we live in?

There is a dramatic rise in Prison detainees that coincide with Dr. Spock's book on child rearing.

I realize the next fact will get little acceptance in this forum, but Solomon, who loved his children, wrote, "Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying."

Chasten means corporal punishment. Using a switch off a tree to put a little sting in the backside of a child may be very unpopular, but it never truly hurt anyone.

Before all you bleeding heart liberals bash this question, be honest:

have you watched any documentaries about Prison life?
have you ever visited a correctional facility?

After having been a guest in that environment, I am convinced of the need for corporal punishment from parents who love their kids enough to be unpopular but good parents at the same time.

Answer 5

Yes kids need spankings. Society has got to lax on disciplining children and for that we have what we have today a nation primarily of young punk kids who don't know how to show respect to their elders much less spell it because we have had to invent new things like ADD or ADHD to explain there lack of learning. Personally i feel we have gone to far and removed to many liberties from the parents and teachers allowed in disciplining children. I was spanked got swats at school and it made me pay attention taught me respect, and you know what I'm fine from it. So do kids need spankings yes they do, some need one to get the day started and one to close it out.

Answer 6

Heck yeah. Like on that show super nanny. A few slaps and some good ole fashioned spanking will do the trick in ONE day! Good spankings are unheard of now. My mom would spank me with a belt for doing bad things, and I'm glad- I'm not one of those brats that have grown up and decided to go on shooting rampages.

Answer 7

I think kids need more discipline, more parental involvement, less stuff, and more consequences. I don't necessarily think a spanking is the answer.

I think a spanking is more a reflection of a failure on the part of the parent...you should be able to be creative enough to punish, short of physical violence. Now, sometimes, you can't..and a spanking is the only thing that works. I do think it should be a last resort, and only done when the parent isn't angry.

I'm a parent and I did spank. I thought I spanked too much. According to my daughter, she can count the times I spanked her on one hand. So, I guess that's not too awful. (I remember one time..she was playing with matches and tossing them in her trashcan which was filled with tissues)

Answer 8

They should only get spanked if they did something wrong. But yeah i do think kids should get a hit in the butt every once in a a while. When i got spanked when I was little, I knew what was right to do and what was wrong. Sometimes kids need a little fear in their lives to prevent them from making a wrong choice.
Thats my opinion.

Answer 9

discipline doesn't mean hurting a child. that means both physical stuff.... ie spankings, and verbal too. yes discipline is defiantly needed but not in any abusive way it will just make kids miserable and they'll always remember what you did to them.... and i don't mean in a way that's like "yes i learned my lesson he taught me well" but more like "why did he hit me, he could have just talked and it would have given the same point, only difference is that talking isn't bad" or "it really hurts to be called that by my own father"

Answer 10

Spanking should be used as a tool, not as a mean to vent a parent's anger. Great communication between parent and child should reinforce this tool, in order to guide the child properly.