Your stance on corporal punishment

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Exigent Circumcisions said:
That's all well and good, but when children are pre-verbal, or still too young to grasp complicated situations it's also moot. Sometimes (rarely) the only explanation is "if you do that you'll get a swat" and there's no sense stressing over it. My toddler was going to squash the cat with a 10 pound weight one day; I wasn't going to sit them down and attempt to explain grievous bodily injury or death to them. A quick swat on the ass, some space to pout over it, then a hug and a brief discussion about not throwing things on the cat and we were back to playing within a minute.

I could have just left it at taking the weight away and trying to explain to the kid, but I wouldn't trust that to have the same effect and we don't need a dead cat just because I'm squeamish or think my little babbo is smart enough to understand why we don't throw dumbbells on the kitty.
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Um, I did point out that small physical punishment are appropriate at times and large physical acts are fine in emergencies. I think killing the cat would fall under emergency.
 
I personally disagree with the usage of corporal punishment as i just see it as a lazy way to discipline children through fear.
Altough there could definitely be times where instilling that little bit of fear in children may be a necessity, a reminder to let them know who is providing them with housing and education.
Just don"t overdo it and beat the crap out of them for most mundane shit possible especially if you yourself are guilty of it.
 
I think he's kind of a dick for someone who ranks fairly low.
 
I think kids should be corrected if they do something obviously dangerous, the physical punishment should never have the goal to physically injure the children.

I live in a fucking retarded country where older people would tell being beaten with metal wires and burnt with boiling water and incandescent spoons as children as punishment.

Makes me glad most of these people are all dead along with their barbaric notion of parenting, as they should be, these traditions should be burried, full stop.

My mother also said her mother would often force fed her and my uncle with belts slaps until they spent the next three days vomiting and shitting in stomach pain.

My grandmother was a fucktard and I am glad that tradition dies with her in my family.

If you think physically torturing defenseless people are anything near justifiable just get fucking castrated, if you can't raise children just don't, if you got this far you are a failure already and it's 100% your fault, not of the children.

Children mimic the behavior of the parents, if you are no example of discipline and self-control you children will never be, if you beat children to that level you are already a failure in their eyes, and no fucking role model to teach control and discipline, they just can't rationalize that yet, bit deep down they know.

The only fair punishment for children abusers is getting burnt, beaten and humiliated the same way, preferably by five or six adults forcibly holding them which would be the same for an adult holding a child, as they see the boiling water being brought to annihilate their flash and muscles while they watch powerless and in horror.

Jesus I can't even type it thinking of an adult, imagine doing this with children, your children.
 
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Rice Is Ready said:
I think it's ok to give a kid a swift slap on the back of the head when they're misbehaving.
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So did I until somebody told me that it is never good to hit the kid's head because it can addle neurons or something ...

It makes sense, except for the fact that the skull is a massive piece of bone. I suppose that like anything it depends on the strength of the assault and the weakness of the target.

Solution is probably to vary your target. Ritualized butt-beating turns kids into fetishists, hit them on the had too hard wind up with brain problems, smack them on the face constantly, neighbors and child himself notice a pattern and start talking about it ...

Use the minimal amount of force to get your point across. But just replying to your thing about the head.
 
Non-Expert! said:
So did I until somebody told me that it is never good to hit the kid's head because it can addle neurons or something ...

It makes sense, except for the fact that the skull is a massive piece of bone. I suppose that like anything it depends on the strength of the assault and the weakness of the target.

Solution is probably to vary your target. Ritualized butt-beating turns kids into fetishists, hit them on the had too hard wind up with brain problems, smack them on the face constantly, neighbors and child himself notice a pattern and start talking about it ...

Use the minimal amount of force to get your point across. But just replying to your thing about the head.
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That's why I slap with the fingers and not the palm. Gets the message across without knocking them silly.
 
A swift spank on the ass when the kids being a lil shit, swat their hands if they grab something they aren't, and stern discipline goes so much farther than anything else you can possibly think of for reigning the lil shit heads in.

As a child that came from a household where the Wooden spoon was the ultimate weapon of Terror I too enforce the "Count to 3" but I fucking finish 3 and then tear into the lil bastard. The pussification of children began when parents refuse to DISCIPLINE (not beat, big difference) their children. No pain, no consequences, no wonder the millenials think they can do anything, because they haven't been told "No BillyBlueHair you can't shove your face full of cookies and call it dinner!" and then instead of feeling Pain(the greatest of motivator's) they get told to sit in the corner or "Think about what you have done!" No consequences at all.
 
Teaching through pain is an effective and rapid teaching method but needs to be saved for only very serious circumstances. For example take shaolin warrior monks. Their martial arts training largely consists of "the beatings will continue until you do it properly", but it makes sense if you look at their history. Learning how to fight, and how to fight well, was a matter of life or death. Corporal punishment for disobedience may very well have served a purpose in the 1400's in the same way terrifying fairy tails did, but these days in such a decadent and safe society it should only be very rarely employed, if at all.
 
Personally parents are able to raise their kids in which ever way they see as effective. I was raised in a traditional household. I got and deserved my swats when I was misbehaving and as a rule in our house, you knew you'd really fucked up when it was Dad who was doing the spanking and not mom. That said, upon reflection the few times in my life it happened were entirely justified. (Like burning a hole in the rug because I wanted to play with candles.)

As I got older any punishments for misbehavior usually became chore related, shoveling old peoples drive ways, etc.

I'm for corporal punishment, however it comes with some caveats.

  • It should only be done when it is absolutely necessary to get the message across that the behaviour of the child was unacceptable, and not for dumb reasons.
  • It should never be excessive, but only for as long to get the message across
  • It should never involve belts, straps, or canes.
I can equally sympathize for people who would be against it. One or two of my friends growing up had abusive parents, and they used it as an excuse to just wail on the kids whenever they got pissed off with life.
 
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