How many of you got spanked as a kid, if you weren't spanked what punnishment, if any did you get when you were a kid? I was spanked, heck you could get a spanking for laughing at another kid getting a spanking at my house... that happened alot :P

Hehe, I always laugh at my black friends when they tell me about their whoopings.

But I was never hit in any way. Ever. Well, maybe once for laughing in my mother's face, but she just slapped me on my thigh.

I was smacked around :D

I GOT SLAPPED (and it hurt)

I was mutilated with exceedingly sharp objects. =(

Once when I was three... but I suppose I really shouldn't smash every window at eye-level with a meat cleaver.

Like... tapped once or twice but not hit...


I'm a [CENSORED]ing saint so I didnt need to be punished

Your avatar just enforces your 'saintly-ness'.

 Quote:Originally posted by peemonkeyI was smacked around :D

Hitting your children is wrong... it's just WRONG. If they grow up with the feeling violence can solve things... they will use it. I, for one, have never actually been hit as punishment.

Bull[CENSORED]. MilkmanDan just said he was never hit, and look how he turned out. If anything, hitting children is VITAL to their development.

 Quote:Originally posted by frogboyBull[CENSORED]. MilkmanDan just said he was never hit, and look how he turned out. If anything, hitting children is VITAL to their development.

I love you too, buddy. :)

Also, I feel this is the right time to use this:

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^lol^

i was spanked when i was a youngin, and as i got older they substituted that for grounding me. i think thats the best way to do it, little children understand little else than pain as negative reinforcment.

I was only hit once when I was whining about a stupid toy from 4 AM to around 1 PM. I deserved it.

Spanking was used during my upbringing and is a very good way of punishing if done right (I.e not in anger or abusive) And I'm very glad my parents cared enough about me to punish me so I would'nt turn out awful. A child is not going to remeber a heart to heart conversation about how it's "bad to do that" as well as "if I do that it's bad and It hurts". Now that's not to say you should spank a child for every thing they do bad, other punishments need to come into play in the right situations.

you got the toy?

AA is right, people in America are so politically correct and "saintly" that they seem to forget that Pain is a vital negative reinforcement on beings of lower intelligence (aka Babies). However, as the child grows older, the punishment should turn to taking away objects and privilages they like, and after 16, most of the time a parent should just express diapproval on a child's actions if they don't seem correct.

The problem with the world today is people don't hit their [CENSORED]ing kids. Back in the day, you hit the [CENSORED]er if he got out of line, and if he didn't get in shape, you hit him again. He'd get in shape after a few times, or just once. Then, next time he got outta line, you threaten, and that usually stops the [CENSORED]er.
These days, nobody hits their kids, they just give them mind-altering drugs and counciling and cell phones.

I am glad i got spankings, my cousins who live right up the road didn't, and they are the worst children ever, spoiled brats all of them. I see it like this, if a kid touches something hot and it hurts them they know not to touch it again, if they touch something hot and nothing happens they don't know to not touch it again.
Heck getting hit is how i learned to read, me and my dad would just have a book, if I asked him how to pronounce a word he would just give me a little smack on the head, and say "You know it sound it out." And peemonkey, yeah your right. I really think you can tell who was spanked and who wasn't, people that did seem to be more mature that did.
 Quote:Hitting your children is wrong... it's just WRONG. If they grow up with the feeling violence can solve things... they will use it. I, for one, have never actually been hit as punishment.
I was spanked as a kid, I haven't hit anyone in a few years, in fact i always try to keep violence out of things unless its necessary

Belted once.
Never did whatever it was again.

Ive gotten many a spankin back in my day, paddled a couple times with a goliath of a paddle (rougly 10 pounds of solid oak with 21 holes drilled into it for maximum paddlin action).
One time my grampa tried to spank me but it hurt him due to his arthritis.
Boy, I sure did straighten up when the paddle came around.

I was spanked and hit with a belt any time I did something wrong. I pity the kids who never got that treatment, now they're little [CENSORED]es, I eat those kind of people for brunch.

Uhm. Slapped in the face twice, and both times they were a "I was going to slap you out of anger, but then I didn't want to hit you so I slowed down and sort of tapped you on the face."

And then I was hit with a belt once by my mom's last ex when I was like, what, 8 because I had climbed out of bed for a glass of water and caught the guy online looking at porn. :P Mom dumped him after that, and yeah. I think that's it.

Spanking, or hitting, no...nothing ever intentional.

Yes I was spanked, hit with a belt, spoon and everything else, all the [CENSORED]ing time. Not because I had bad parents, just because I was an annoying little [CENSORED] who couldn't stay out of trouble (throwing the cat, teasing the neighbour's dog, bothering my sisters, et cetera).

I was spanked a few times :( One time I ate my sisters birthday cake with my dog when I was 6 and was punished for that :P

was never hit, spanked, belted or whatever. bearly yelled at.
guess my parents could give me some discipline without using any force or premitive methods like all of your futuristic-child-hitting-fathers' parents.

peemonkey you're [CENSORED]ing disturbed if you believe in what you write.
don't know if that's sarcasm coming from you cause i don't come here that much often anymore.. if it isnt sarcasm you're a real [CENSORED]nut and i hope you will never have any children. but if you will, i hope your wife will get married with a stronger, bigger man that will beat the [CENSORED] out of you for every time you touched her kids.

I got spanked for calling the nanys at my preschool biotches and biting other kids.

wtf... you think children only understand pain as negative reinforcement? They understand locking them up in their room...

CHILDREN ARE NOT STUPID

children are people... hitting people doesn't come to anything good... If somebody approves being hit... that's his decision... and he lives with it... if somebody hits me... I hit them back, simple as that...

A good person is punished enough by just thinking.

If I did something bad, I KNOW I shouldn't have done it, and I feel guilty...

Of course... people with an IQ and EQ under 100 won't feel that... so you think hitting them would be appropriate???? NO
they grow up with violence and use it later on...

You should've been hit as a child. We're talking about small children. They don't automatically know right from wrong. People know right from wrong because of their experiences. I know a guy who claims not to feel pain. As a result he does stupid [CENSORED] like climb walls and deliberately "hurt" himself. Or, so I've heard. And by "hit" I think the majority of us think of a slap when they've done something wrong. Not getting out the baseball bat and whacking them across the face.

My mum put my hand on the oven door to tell me that's 'hot'. Worked wonders.

 Quote:Originally posted by Rhombuswtf... you think children only understand pain as negative reinforcement?

CHILDREN ARE NOT STUPID

children are people
Yep. Yes they are. Nope.

If children where people they'd be allowed to vote :)

 Quote:Or, so I've heard. And by "hit" I think the majority of us think of a slap when they've done something wrong. Not getting out the baseball bat and whacking them across the face.
Yeah my dad had a wooden spoon we called "the rod" and just before spankings he would say this everytime "You know I hate to do this, and I love you, but you shouldn't have don't that, now move your hands" *wap wap wap wap wap wap*

Sounds bad, but common in that area for discipline.

i got whacked coz i lost 3 waterguns in one go... (it was painful, but now i dont forget stuff that easy : P) ^_^

Does anyone have that "Punch her in the face because you're right" image? I wanna make a shirt.

Considering you are all part of this forums, how can any of you say Children are not stupid? seriously.
Anyhow, I got kicked once by my father after he basicly searched the whole city for 6 hours when I was "hiding" at my friend's house, besides that he never yelled at me hit me or anything.
My mother however broke a wooden spoon on me, beat me up once or twice with her walking sticks and that rounds it up.

Personaly, I'm not planning on hiting my kids in anyway, there are SO many ways of punishing them, my wrost punishment EVER was when my father got dispointed by me and went away from me with his sad and disapointing face.
That was like an arrow in the heart for me, wrost then any beating he could give me.

oh yeah, the wooden spoon *remembers threats*

at this point, when dad gets angry at me it actually matters, because he doesnt stay around me long enough to be mad, but when mom gets mad, who cares? she is mad all day, why does it matter now?

well said Ok, well said.

Ok, the first sentance makes no sense to me, clears it up :)

 Quote:Originally posted by peemonkeyOk, the first sentance makes no sense to me, clears it up :)


here, Quote:Ok and his jiberish
Considering you are all part of this forums, how can any of you say Children are not stupid? Quote:translation
Children are stupid.

Children aren't stupid.

They will pick up and reproduce what they see and what is done to them. If any of you think hitting a child is a good means of discipline you should have your nuts cut off because you're liable to screw up your kids. You want to hit your son? Congrats, and enjoy knowing you've most likely produced an abusive a-hole son who will do the same to his kids and family if he's not a criminal. Want to abuse your daughter? Another low-esteem stripper/hooker hooking up with a-hole abusive guys just like the dad that screwed them up.

Things that hurt us as children become hardwired into the brain, for better or for worse. They can and do go on to become sources of attraction later in life. Doesn't matter if it's a slap or a belt. No I'm not saying one or two incidents of spanking will do this...but there is a very fine line between a few spankings and abuse. Better to not get anywhere near that line by using your brain and nto raising a hand to your own child.

Geo, im not in favor of closed fist punching your kids in the face if they spill their drink. im saying that when children are really young, like say...6 years old. i think that its perfectly appropriate to give them spankings when they disobey you. when they get old, restrictions and whatnot are more appropriate.

That's good, because I never said you were in favor of it either. I did, however, say that closed hand or open hand it was wrong either way. I don't agree with spanking as a means of discipline, but I also don't think that a few incidents of it are that bad. However it's rather futile to try and argue between a smack to the ass or one to the face, yet the latter just seems so much...more abusive imo. It's an odd subject...I watched many of my friends get beat quite badly in their childhood, and it's only when I think back on it that I see such a distinction between a spanking and smacking ones kid around as a solution to anything.

I'm not saying beat you kids up. I'm saying make sure they know to listen and behave and recognize the limits through a swift smack on the ass. The only time I was ever actually hit by my father, I was 14 and hit him right back.
You can't do it until they're 18 or nothing, you have to lay down the [CENSORED] before they know to disobey you, or they'll go ahead and dis-o-[CENSORED]ing-bey you. It stays with them, but they aren't automatically going to do it to their kids when they're adults. Not everyone turns out anything like their parents.
Not all kids need a whoopin either, some are actually totally [CENSORED]ing behaved and whatnot, so it's cool.

I'm no child abuser, I take my anger out on puppies from the local vet.

Ahhh..okay then, as long as they deserve it :D

My dad smacked (spanking sounds kind of... sick) me, but I don't hate him for it... I think.
But I suppose, smacking or not, it's still physically hitting your child.

The only time hitting your child will damage them is if its abuse, and of course there is a line you can cross where spanking comes abuse, but I have never heard of that happening with anyone I know. If you hit you child just cause you had a bad day well then yeah that will mess them up but if you spank a child and tell them why your doing it and why it has to be done, like my dad did its not going to mess them up, its not like im some crazy murderer now. Like I said before it goes back to the heat thing I said before, If a kid touches something hot and it burns them they know not to touch it again, but if they touch somethign the same temp and nothing happens they don't know not to touch it. I mean I wouldn't want my kid to hug a hot iron a few times.

I don't know about that...I think you'd rig a hot iron into your kids toys just for extra burn time.

:P YOU can read my like a book Geo

If you really want to [CENSORED] up their mind, sing while you hit them. Sing something happy and obscure, so later in life when they happen to hear it they get flashbacks and it [CENSORED]s them up again :D

Happy Birthday to you..Happy Birthday to you..!

 Quote:Ok and his jiberish


Hey ! I resent that!!!! <_<

Still with the jiberish....