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Child Spanking: Discipline or Abuse?

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I was at Costco the other day and this mother was letting her child scream bloody murder crying in the cart in front her and acted as if it wasn't happening. If that was me my mother would have already taken me out to the car and spanked me for acting up.

Spanking children, in your opinion is this act of discipline or abuse?
 
I think spanking your kids is okay as long as you don't let it get out of hand (then it could be abuse) Spanking was okay back in the day. I've been spanked a few times when I was young and I turned out okay. I respect my parents and all people and I know how to behave properly because I was disciplined and then shown the right way.

Parents wonder why their kids keep going crazy, half of it is the parent's fault because they don't give any discipline to their kids!
 
A hit or two won't do any harm and it make the lil one understand better that it's bad. You see the difference between people born in the 80s and early 90s compared to those born later on. Nowadays kids don't respect older people in anyway, or at least that's how most of them are.
Personally I think that it is ok to hit your kid, not hard to hurt him much, it's enough to gently spank it to make it understand it was wrong.
 
I don't think it does anything but teach your kids it is ok to hit others and theirs when they have children, the child is playing up for a reason, it isn't hard to talk to them ad ask them rather than yelling and hitting them
 
It's not abuse unless you don't stop after a few and if you do it enough to give them seriously bad bruises or you do it for no reason.
 
Depends on the thing. If they did something like stealing and stuff. Discipline. If its something small like spilling a thing of milk. Abuse. It should be to make them not want to do it. Not be scared of it.
 
I don't think that hitting your children does anything useful to be honest. I think all it does is create some hate in your child which they're either going to release on you or other children who then suffer because your parenting isn't good enough. If you want to teach a child a lesson then discipline them in a different way - take their devices away/ground them etc.
 
For those with the opinion that spanking is useless... growing up us a child, did you parents spank you? I'm just curious because the general consensus seems to be that those that experienced spanking as a child generally still respect their parents.

For me personally, I was never spanked as a kid or hit with a belt although I did get my share of pinches from my mother when I would act up or whatever. I've always respected my parents though as well as my elders.
 
I say spanking can become a way of abusing children if it gets out of hand. Personally, I think spanking your children doesn't do anything good and will bring worse situations. Discipline children by spanking is fine, but only if the problems are really big.

As a child, I had been spanked once by my father and hit by my mother. I never was hitten by a belt or something. I am quite a troublemaker. :P
 
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