Are you going to spank your future children?

[BreakABone]

Worked for my parents, and their parents and etc.

[Bube]

I already spank my future children.

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Bube

I already spank my future children.

We aren't talking about the leftovers in the paper tissue after a session you know.

[Typhoid]

Damn right I'm going to, so long as they deserve a smack.

I used to get smacked with a wooden spoon so much, that I didn't know what a wooden spoon was for. I thought it was for smacking children. When I was bad, my mom would just put the wooden spoon on the counter and I'd shut right up. Until the day I saw her making pasta sauce with the wooden spoon and proclaimed "What are you doing with the wooden spoon?" That is the day the wooden spoon lost its power.

Hitting your children puts them in their place. If you don't hit your kids when they are deserving of some type of smack, they will think they hold most of the power.

[Dylflon]

Only for necessary behavioural adjustment.

I'm sure I'll have to do it at some points but don't plan to use it as a go-to parenting tool.

[TheGame]

I plan on doing it, unless I have all girls.. in which case my wife will do it lol

[Teuthida]

No. Ethical reasons aside your kids eventually get too big to put them over your knee. Guilt trips know no age limit. I don't think I would respect my parents as much if they had hit me.

[Vampyr]

I've debated it, and I'm not morally opposed to it, but I think there are more effective methods.

Although if you do it in public, even if it's not hard, the embarrassment will probably be super effective and let them know you aren't afraid to punish them around other people.

I'd probably just pick them up and carry them out of wherever we are though, tell them what punishment they were getting later in the car, then bring them back in.