Do you / Will you Spank your Kids?
 

Simple...

If you are an parent do/did you spank your children

if you plan to be a parent will you spank your children?


What say you?

Is this a poll?

about to get personal,

I did/do, but currently going through a custody battle with the ex. She spanks and her new husband uses a belt, but in being the first to cry "foul" to the courts, had me fighting for my rights to visitation because of said spankings and false accusations to child abuse.

I believe the the validity of spanking and feel it does have it's place in parenting, but I will not do it again, now for there is a mixed message that my kids will not understand for sometime, higher road taking here, and hope the kids see who was right later in life.

Our kids are 17, 15, and 14. It has been a while since we have. But we did when they were younger.

I've done it once, and that was just a single swat.

I've found that the right look on your face teamed with the right tone in your voice can bring about change in your kid.

I will when its necessary. I think the fact that a parent proves they WILL do it, makes it less necessary when used as an option for their choice to behave. "would you rather stop doing that, or get a boost?"

I think if a new step-parent touched my child with a belt, I'd ruin his shit.

Never out of anger, and not with any kind of force. It shouldn't hurt physically.

I have, and I wish I never had.

We have never spanked my son.

But the poll is misleading. I don't think that the parents that chose to spank their kids are "sick" or making an immoral choice. It's just a parenting choice. There is no right or wrong absolute.

Yes, but it's beyond extremely rare. I've spanked my oldest, who is generally just not a tough or bullheaded kid, maybe twice in his 5 years. The youngest, who is 2-1/2 years old and destined to be a middle linebacker, maybe 4 times.

Each time it's only like 3 swats, and not with all of my might (can't imagine doing that). Anybody who needs to pull out a belt to get the message across to little kids is pretty damn pathetic.

Usually when they're bad I put them in the corner. Spankings would occur after a couple trips to the corner haven't worked, or if they did something that was beyond the pale and they knew it was wrong.

And, as Bowser said, the right look/tone works 98% of the time.

I let Momma handle that.
I did tell the kids to turn her in but they never have.

Well the wife is 5 day’s over due, so ask me next week. LOL


My mother used to carry a wooden spoon in her purse and WAS NOT SCARED to use it ANYWHERE ANY TIME!(My mother was also a bitch, and should NEVER have had kids, perhaps it’s the religious hang up’s she faced)
I remember a good many times she would be wailing away at me saying crap like
"Jehovah doesn’t tolerate bad children so I’m doing this for your own good"
I SHIT YOU NOT!!!!!!!
My old man would tear off his belt in a hartbeat (at my mothers urging) and swing it 3 times, as long as you cried on the second he stoipped at 3.
Again, utterng some retoric bullcrap of "What do you think the "elders" would say of they knew you did this/that?"

Personally I think that most of to days youth would have faired out better if they would have had a slap on the azz now and then, but unfortunately we live in a society where "do-gooders" like to stick their noise so far into others business that "corporal punishment" doesn’t exist without the fear of child abuse charges being dropped on you.

When I was in school, the principle could give you the "Strap", now he’d lose his job, so they just expel you for the rest of the year.
It seems to me that the world has gone from one extreme of "You go out to that tree and break off a switch son!" to "Get out of my school and never come back so I don’t have to deal with this"

sorry poll was all ready to post but the boss came and sat down for a few min. Poll is up now

I was never spanked, even though I deserved it on a number of occasions. I can't imagine ever doing it.

Why do you wish you hadn't?