When parents uses physical discipline towards a child that gives them the message that hitting is the right way to solve problems that they will ever encounter. If your child sees you solving your problems by using violence it will be very difficult for your child to solve problems in an appropriate manner. Example: your child gets into a disagreement with one of his/her classmates, your child takes it upon his/her self to use violence towards the other child instead of doing the right thing and tell an adult. This same typed of violence will follow your child into adulthood which can lead to crime or murder.
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I don't think that's accurate. I was physically disciplined and I have only hit someone when it was the only way to defend myself. I never use violence against anyone. I think what you're arguing depends more on the child's personality. Your argument is kind of a slippery slope.
(among other forms of punishment). My brother and I are both in college (I'm older) on scholarships. One of my cousins just graduated college and is on his way to being a gym teacher, and his brother is in the Navy and has been all around the world. My best friend was raised the same way and is also in college. I refuse to believe that physical discipline (not physical abuse) teaches violence, nor that it is ineffective.
Yeah, I agree with the other comments, and would add that, there are TOO MANY intervening variables. Violence is not just caused by physical discipline. In fact, if you ask me, I believe that some of our societies problems (at least with the youth) is too many parents raised their children with no physical discipline and now the majority (not all) are running around like they own the world and they don't have to answer to anyone, doing whatever they want, because there is no fear of punishment from their parents. I suppose I could be wrong, but that's how I see it.
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This is tough for a lot of people.
I think it's ok to teach your child a lesson by spanking them.
Especially when they're so young.
They won't know better unless you discipline them.
I think that a spanking is the only thing that will keep them from doing it again.
Now to Physically abuse a child for no good reason is wrong.
There's different ways of parenting and I think whether a child grows up to be abusive depends on a lot of that.
I was also spanked and I have never hit anyone.
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If a child continues to be spanked when he/she is old enough to think violence is okay, then yes maybe, but if you are spanked as a young child you dont know the difference.
If a child continues to be spanked when he/she is old enough to think violence is okay, then yes maybe, but if you are spanked as a young child you dont know the difference.
If physical discipline is done in a violent manner, it could yield a violent adulthood. But proper physical discipline given out of love and in a controlled way never has, as far as I have seen.
I got beat when I was bad and I don't hit other people when I get in disagreements. You can't even tell I was hit as a kid.
Absolutely not. First of all, no sane adult solves his or her problems by hitting people, especially their own children. I was spanked when I was younger because young children don't understand logical reasoning (come on, take a toddler and tell them not to crawl out onto the street when you set them on the lawn). Instead, small spanks build a concience in children (when I do this, owie.), actually helping to prevent children from getting in trouble in the future. Spanking = no.
A child recognises a parent as a dominating, yet loving figure, and also recognises spanking as a right endowed by only a parent, and is rarely, if ever, reinacted. children recognise this as an act of discipline, and that they don't have the ability to administrate such.
Senseless beating is an entirely different subject, and cannot be confused with discipline at all!
Furthermore, this kind of close-minded and ________ thinking is an obvious echo of radical leftist media. In that, I mean that sheeple everywhere are easily swallowing the secularly social spoon-fed excuses produced from murderers who can so easily sucker compassion from irrational heart-headed people.
Even being violently beaten by one's parents is an excuse to murder others- do you not have the slightest control over your own actions? Is one incapable of seeking help, do they have no sense of anything? Even fools have the capacity to recognise. These people were, if that is their excuse, undoubtedly submitted to much more than beatings, but to a lack of love altogether among things much more violent than physical violence. Humans are defined for their ability to choose.
Please don't contribute to the senselessness of down-spiralling secularity.
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~ Raven
"I don't care" ....
is a serious misreading of my attitude.
I'm nothing if not secular, and I'm pretty liberal, and I also think there is absolutely nothing wrong with giving a kid a good sound spanking if they earn it.
Completely untrue. My sisters were spanked much less than I was, and they're both much more violent than I am.
I don't need drugs - I have genetics.