Spare the rod and spoil the child?

[Maricel Evasco]

What are your views on spanking and other forms of corporal punishment?

Did your parents spank you?

 

Corporal punishment is a major discipline component of

many African and Asian countries. I was spanked and belted

as a child, but not to the point of abusiveness. The same

holds true for almost ALL of my cousins and friends.

 

Sometimes a good dose of spanking is needed

to put a kid right. I seldom have discipline issues

with African and Asian students because I know it

is part of their culture to be reprimanded physically.

 

I seldom spanked my kids when they were children.

They had to write 500 word essays instead. They're ok

for now, but they can get unruly at times.

 

I'm not too keen on the "time out" tactic. Sometimes

a kid just boil over in anger sitting at a corner.

[Apposite]

Maricel Evasco:  I am against censorship (word makes me shudder)

 

We both agree on that Maricel!:)

[Quinn]

I agree Wendy.

I've never been impressed by people trying to assert their power, I have no respect for that type of behavior.

[Snagg]

Alright, I'll try it again -

 

Macon - You are seeing just a tiny part of why I'm opposed to religion, not the whole enchilada. Not even CLOSE.

 

As for your being whipped with "anything that was at hand" - You were abused, Macon. Period - Assuming these beatings occurred while you were a small child, and unable to defend yourself. You can call it "deserved punishment", "being taught a sense of values", whatever, but what you had beaten into you was not "respect" - That much is obvious by the way you treat people who disagree with you with no respect whatsoever. What you got knocked into you was a load of was Fear - Fear so great that to this day you don't even dare call it Abuse.

 

As for my school days - It's not just about the beatings. When an authority figure punishes an innocent child, and then makes a show of protecting a guilty one - There is absolutely NOTHING about that, that teaches "Respect". What that demonstrates is a raw, brutal, utter contempt for the ideas and values that are supposed to instill Respect.

The authority figure can cloak itself in righteousness and morality all it wants, but the kid on the other end of the rod knows what's really going on.

[Apposite]

The only time I think it is wrong is when it is done unfairly and too often.