It's a lot more effective just to tell them what they did wrong. Physically hitting your kid isn't going to get nearly as good results, and it's hurting the kid.

Well, [url=http://youtu.be/mN1EfSOEpTs]this kid's[/url] parents told him to stop. Did he learn anything?

When I was a kid, whenever I was spanked, I sure as hell didn't do whatever I did to deserve it again. A little ([b]and I repeat [i]little[/i][/b]) physical punishment never hurt anybody in the long run.

People who think it's wrong weren't spanked as a child or were spanked too hard/often as a child hahaha

Sign here if you were spanked as a kid and DON'T regret it.

I would go with spanking and I have a story about why too. So just to point this out because it is actually kind of important to this story, I'm 13 you'll see why I said this in a second. So when I was a little kid I use to get in trouble ALOT I mean referrals this and referrals there, and everytime I got slapped right across my arse I'd would start to cry and hate my dad even more. But each time that happen, each time I became a better kid. I slowly started to stop being bad and started to stop talking back at my teachers and my parents. Going back to the present, because of that I became a more civilized person, I now have a lot of friends, I'm starting to get really good grades (3 As and 2 Bs on all of my classes) and I have a pretty good family relationship with my mom and dad. But when I go to school, I realized how spoiled everyone there is... When I walk in the school mostly everyone there are acting like there the best of the best, boys acting like there from the hood or some crap like that, girls are acting like there gonna be the next Nikki Minaj or some crap like that. Now there is some really nice people I have met too and because I was forced into band (no regrets) I met a lot of cool people from there and I really enjoy hanging out with them. So in the end do I agree with spanking? Yes, yes I do.

The first time my mother spanked me as a kid, it was because I was running into the street in front of an oncoming Semi Truck. You know what I never did, again? [i]Run out into the street[/i]. Spanking - 1 Dead children - 0

There's a difference between spanking & beating

Yes. But people need to understand that it shouldn't be done except in very bad circumstances. There needs to be consistency in punishment. And the pain is less important than the message that the kid gets. The pain goes away pretty fast, but the message sticks a lot longer.

There's two things everyone needs before becoming an adult. 1) a spanking as a child when you really -blam!-ed up. 2) their shit kicked in at least once as a teenager. You'll learn real boundaries and consequences.

Wow 80% of you are literally the spawn of hitler. If you think its okay to hit children, just one question how would you like it if someone came and slapped you upside the head everytime you made a mistake? Kids make mistakes alot more than adults this is called learning, physical violence is never the answer to anything, especially hitting someone you profess to love unconditionally. If you think its okay your opinion is wrong and i hope you take a good long look at yourself after you've physically abused a child and feel ashamed at your childish actions.

I just saw a Dr Phil episode where this mom was scared of her 16 year old daughter and had to call the cops on her multiple times. The thing that really ticked me off was that she said "I don't know what to do." are u kidding me? Is discipline a foreign concept to parents these days?

There's scientific verification along with psychological studies that show why spanking is effective, but for the wrong reasons. 1. When you're a child, you have a bond with your parents, the both of them, no matter how good or bad they are. But it's been proven that as soon as a parent spanks a child, something is lost, sub-consciously. Trust. Sub-consciously, a child who is spanked has their bond with their parents weakened, because biologically we're all programmed to view or parents as protectors. When you betray that ingrained trust, something is lost that is never regained. 2. The child doesn't become any more aware of their actions of right or wrong, instead, psychologically, they fear the punishment. Which essentially means, that if threat of punishment were taken away, a child wouldn't act "good." In fact they'd likely immidiately turn to something worse. Spanking doesn't make a child understand the reason of why what they did was wrong. It just teaches them to be fearful of what happens when you do something wrong. Which, as you can see, is a fundamentally broken concept. 3. For children who are excessively spanked, being "delinquents" in their youth, and largely ignored by their paretns in their pleas of attention through being disruptive or "bad," this has a profound psychological effect on them Spanking, in essence, becomes their only connection to their parents. Their only real sense of being noticed. Which obviously screws around with the wiring in the child's head. They do bad things to get noticed, a plea for attention, of which they finally get when their parents spank them. But remember that issue I talked about earlier? How spanking a child breaks their connection to their parents and weakens it? Yeah. You end up with grown adults with some serious or strange psychological issues because of that. They did studies on this. In sexual interactions where one partner wants to be spanked, or dominated, 90% of the subjects tested where spanked as children, which created this strange set of mental wiring in their heads, associating that action and that feeling with the expression of love and care. So. Ask yourself this. Is that not, just a little bit -blam!-ed up? Those are my thoughts.