Court rules hidings for kids officially illegal

[winner]

Except when they are old or infirm or mentally disabled and need care? What's the difference from an old person to a child? I mean do you spank your grandmother when she does something wrong?

I don’t spank them but I guess you can take away their cellphones, give them time out or whatever you think is acceptable to kids right?

 

[Anti-Chris]

You have to be pretty unhinged to need to use any implement to hit a child. It's pretty much a clear sign of a coward. If I were going to hit my children I'd least be brave enough to use my own hand. But hitting a child is the easy, lazy way, and I'd rather put in the effort to do things better.

Nothing you've said demonstrates that your choice to hit your child is beneficial to the child. Research has established that hitting children does produce quick compliance, which is one reason its popular, but that it doesn't produce lasting benefits or internalise the desired behaviour.


Protest action from before the 90s demonstrates that it could easily have happened.


It is well established that using implements is definitely a bad idea.

Lmao... And name calling while hiding behind a keyboard with a fake name is very brave...
I really dont care what you or others think of my parenting style. If my kid is more successful than I am, I have done my job and I will be proud of him and the way I raised him, even if he hates me for it, I will be able to live with my cowardly self...
So you are suggesting that I hit my son with a fist when he misbehaves, since he is way to big to pull over my lap for a spanking? Wow... I would rather just use the cane...

 

[EADC]

Beat your little Hitler's all you want they are going to catch on Kak regardless, most important is to make sure they know even when they get into Kak they can still come to you as a parent.

Saved my ass numerous times knowing my parents where always there for me.

 

[rambo919]

Interesting how all the adults here are behaving like children......

 

[Swa]

Interesting how all the adults here are behaving like children......

Weren't spanked enough.

 

[rambo919]

Weren't spanked enough.

Bunch of pervs begging for adult spanking

 

[surface]

JFC I am lucky with my kid. Never even attempted anything like this.

Indeed. Just my guess but I think people spanking their kids these days must have received heavy spanking in their childhood. I doubt if many will say I did not get spanked but I spank my kids.

 

[surface]

I hate to state the obvious but here we go.

Interesting arguments. How did you end up being Christian when your father was muslim and mother a buddhist? Did you study all the doctrines and came to your conclusion?

 

[copacetic]

I am personally entirely anti-violence, outside of immediate situations requiring self-defence, or the defence of someone in proximity to you that you have the ability to protect.

If I had kids, which I don't, nor plan to, I'd definitely not give them any sort of pain-based punishment, I find the idea personally abhorrent.

That being said - I am sure there are many well-adjusted human beings with loving parents who were spanked, and gave spankings as well as many wretched arseholes, who were not.

I don't know why so many people feel so strongly about this, as if it's the one thing that's going to make or break a child.

My anecdotal corporal punishment story was I recall being hit on the hand by a teacher, with a metal ruler. I still fume about this today: the violation I felt has coloured my life from that moment forward, and not in a good way. I know this sounds dramatic, and I don't mean to be, just pointing out that the result of a brief instance inflicting pain on a human being can have wildly varying consequences, obviously. In my case, it engendered in me a profound distrust of authority, which led to a cascade of extremely bad life decisions, let me tell you...

Perhaps I should have been hurt more? \_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Swa]

I am personally entirely anti-violence, outside of immediate situations requiring self-defence, or the defence of someone in proximity to you that you have the ability to protect.

If I had kids, which I don't, nor plan to, I'd definitely not give them any sort of pain-based punishment, I find the idea personally abhorrent.

That being said - I am sure there are many well-adjusted human beings with loving parents who were spanked, and gave spankings as well as many wretched arseholes, who were not.

I don't know why so many people feel so strongly about this, as if it's the one thing that's going to make or break a child.

My anecdotal corporal punishment story was I recall being hit on the hand by a teacher, with a metal ruler. I still fume about this today: the violation I felt has coloured my life from that moment forward, and not in a good way. I know this sounds dramatic, and I don't mean to be, just pointing out that the result of a brief instance inflicting pain on a human being can have wildly varying consequences, obviously. In my case, it engendered in me a profound distrust of authority, which led to a cascade of extremely bad life decisions, let me tell you...

Perhaps I should have been hurt more? \_(ツ)_/¯

My experience here is quite different. The time I got hit on the hand with a ruler I basically chose (funny story behind it) and it's the only reason I really remember it and not because it was traumatic or anything. The time a teacher "punished" me in a different way for something I didn't do is still traumatic for me and I've never been able to get over it. She's the one person I've never forgiven and will never be able to even though I can't even remember how she looked and who she was.

I think people are making too much of it. The real issue is people who don't know what's appropriate and what isn't. A court ruling won't suddenly change that.

 

[rambo919]

Violence in itself is nothing to be scared of, the problem is no one can figure out it seems is how to teach children to properly react to violence.