Spanking or No Spanking? (Nov 11, 2010)

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Spanking
Votes 3
No Spanking
Votes 2
Andrea Michigan
I don't like to admit it, but I spank on rare ocassions. I always feel guilty, I think there are more Moms that spank even once, but they just don't admit it.
Tina Maine
There are times when the only way to make sure they get the point is to spank. Obviously, it must be a pretty important point!
Michigan
What is Mom holding? Tabasco sauce; I think that's considered abuse. I dont feel theres anything wrong with spanking as long as it doesn't become abusive,i.e. not hard/long enough to product marks,bruises,ect.
Sandy Texas

I do not like to spank my four year old.  She is my only child, and I love her.  However, sometimes she just does not want to listen.  I always give her up to four warnings, and if she does not listen she knows I am going to spank he on her buttocks. I feel she needs to learn to be obedient that is why I give her 4 warnings. Then it is her choice.  I feel that I am teaching her that everything has concequences.

Michigan
It should be obvious to any THINKING viewer that this video was engineered to promulgate the laughable ethnic stereotype that " Blacks DO and Whites DON'T spank. Just wheel the bourgeois soccer moms and the moms that live on the good side of the ghetto on to the camera and you have a nice lil' JUNK SCIENCE statistic. Btw, the IDIOT who hot sauces her kid's mouth must've read some obscure journal on parenting written by Dr Mengele! She is dumber than a box of salted rocks-absent the personality.:)
Michigan
I find this really frightening. Spanking is physical abuse, and is never ok. It's not funny, and it's not "legitimate" because you were hit as a child, nor because you believe that "most parents" do it. Break the cycle of abuse and don't violate the bodily integrity of children. Read parenting books, go to parenting classes, set boundaries, and use time outs. If your children aren't responding, take them to a physician for mental health evaluations instead of resorting to physical abuse.
Michigan

I have a couple of friends who use the tabasco sauce method when their kids sass them.  The first offense is making them smell it.  The threat alone is enough to curtail the bad behavior.

 

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