cool! i need another half sibling!

Well i got the belt quite a bit wen i was a youngin! I believe in spankn 100%.... My 2 yr old gets "popped" ever once n a while after he repeatadly does stuff after u tell him no cuz he thinks its funny. The way i look at it is if u dnt pop or spank em they wont learn. That standn with yer nose n the corner crap dont work. U gotta show u mean business

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Im right there with you brother.

I think every kid is different. I remember very few spankings, all my dad had to do was give the look andi corrected myself!

But that doesn't work for all kids...as evident by what i see everyday. Some kids need spanked!!!! I don't think it should be in public, do it in private, after you yourself have calmed down. Never do it from anger. Explain why they are getting spanked too, I really think most kids would figure it out rather quickly.

that said....not sure how how it will go with me as my only child is myna month old little girl and she has me wrapped around her finger since before she was born!

Thanks for all the inputs and view points guys. I mostly posted the topic out of a combination of boredom and curiosity. I was upset at the time i originally posted this due to an argument i was having on this topic with an individual that felt she could impart her wisdom on me because she is older than me and "successfully" raised a child that is now 21...(has no job, barely finished HS, and is a general screw up...but he's such a sweet boy!) Im done being bored now... thanks!

We are still gonna share our opinions... Keep em comin guys!

My mom used to smack me out of anger and frustration, not discipline. Made her look like a crazy person in my eyes. So I feel spanking or bop on the head is deserved in only the most extreme cases. But one needs to make sure the punishment fits the crime, like said above, sometimes guilt can be the worse punishment than a beating.