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Spanking Children – A Necessity Or Not?

Posted by Sean on December 31, 2009

 

New Research: Why Never Spanking Might Be Worse for Kids Than Spanking Them – NurtureShock Blog – Newsweek.com

No I do not have children of my own, but I have my fair share of children in my life. So please don’t judge my opinion as false just because I have not had the blessing of raising my own children.

I find this article interesting because it drives home the one thing I have been saying all these years about ‘spanking’ or ‘disciplining’ children. I for one support spanking – but more importantly I support consistent disciplining.

then perhaps the consistency of discipline is more important than the form of discipline. In other words, spanking regularly isn’t the problem; the problem is having no regular form of discipline at all.

I was ‘spanked’ as a child. Discipline was always present in my household as a child.

I don’t think I’m the only one that has noticed the ‘out-of-control’ children and ”disrespectful’ youth that populate our streets these days. I often wonder if discipline or ‘spanking’ was part of their rearing?

Things that make you go hmmm. Thinking

 

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Spanking Could Contribute To Lower IQ???

Posted by Sean on September 25, 2009

OK.

Not trying to beat a dead horse (heh heh.. yep pun intended)

How can you make such an over-generalization? I mean c’mon?!

Children who are spanked have lower IQs – Kids and parenting- msnbc.com.

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Spanking A Child?

Posted by Sean on September 19, 2009

Spanking detrimental to children, study says – CNN.com.

OK.

Opening up a huge can of worms here.

To say spanking is detrimental to children and that you shouldn’t spank AT ALL is quite the over-generalization – don’t you think? Yes I believe in being careful how it is used, when it is used, and exactly how you are doing it. But, using it appropriately for behavioral problems and teaching the child the difference between ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ is very effective.

No. I am not saying you need to abuse your child. I’m not saying spanking is the ONLY way to teach. I’m not saying that you need to raise your every time they do something wrong, disobey, act-up, etc. I’m simply saying that spanking your child has its place.

I don’t care what this or any other ‘study’ says. I don’t care what Dr. Spock and all his followers say. I CAN tell you that from personal experience, as well as from family and friend observation, that the absence of  spanking yields a very different child and very different behavior.

Yes I think there are two sides to this coin and that parenting is a learned skill that no one will ever truly master.

But to say spanking is the root cause for a decrease in thinking skills??

C’mon?!

I guess my feelings for these type of studies ranks up there with trying to correlate child hood nose-picking with being a future threat to society. (Yes, these are actual studies!).

Just my humble opinion.

:)

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