Ban Spanking?

Spanking is horribly useless. It is more likely to create resentment than obedience, and even if it does induce some obedience, it's obedience out of fear and not out of respect. Fear leads to hate.

Niner0

No, no. Fear leads to anger. Then anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. Or whatever Yoda said in that stupid movie.

There is a huge difference between beating a child and "smacking" a child. I got smacked when I did wrong and I'm not a serial killer rapist.

I think this video applies to the "PC society" in some regards - Warning, lots of swearing.

no thats terible they should never ban what turns children into humans with a grasp on reality

Is there anything the Canadian government doesn't want to ban? :|

Discipline is the parents' business. Simple spanking is far from abuse, and it CAN be used in a constructive way as long as you don't spank the kid as a first resort. Saying it doesn't solve anything because it's a physical punishment is short-sighted...and ultimately irrelevant to the question of whether it should be illegal.

I'm still on the fence about this. My adolescent/child Psychology professor gave me a fair argument for spanking. Before a certain age, we cannot cognitively determine the risk factors associated with things that may cause us physical harm or death.

Spanking a child a second or two after they have done something that may cause them harm actually guides them away from it at a young age. As much as I don't like spanking, in the few years before a child develops understanding of advanced systems, spanking does give them a logical punitive measure that they can understand from an early age that keeps them from behaving in a way that may cause them unforeseeable harm.

The same goes for lower mammals. When you train a dog not to crap on the floor, you don't rub his nose in it if its been more than 10 minutes since they did it; that just teaches them to avoid you. You reward them for going outside instead of punishing them for going inside.

After a certain age however, it's best to move on to a cognitive explanation of what they did wrong rather than spanking. It has a much better effect on the child and will guide their understanding in the future.

Only bad parents need to spank their child.

toast_burner

I'm guessing you don't have any kids. And you probably watch to much "Super nanny USA"

I don't know if spanking should be banned, but we have had great success with the naughty spot in our home.

spanking cannot compare to the wooden spoon/belt.

Unless someone is a truly abusive parent, spanking does NOT psychologically scar the child......that's bull****. I was hit with wooden spoons (which often broke on me) and waist belts, and I had a great relation with my dad.