Are you going to spank your future children?

[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.

[Angrist]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

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.

Dude, punishing them in public is so wrong (spanking or no spanking).

I don't plan on spanking them. I can't imagine myself doing that, even though I got some spanking when I was young.
I plan to argue a lot with my children, explaining to them why they should or should not do stuff. I'll come up with other punishments than spanking.

And here I expected this thread to be related to training dogs. I don't know that many people who hit their dog, but apparently kids are different.

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Angrist

Dude, punishing them in public is so wrong (spanking or no spanking).

I strongly disagree with that... omg, have you seen how some of these kids act in public? They need a level of fear in them that you will get them at any time... or they're going to act out when they can.

Now, that's not ALL kids, but you have to deal with bad ass kids to understand. You need to set boundaries, and a 2-4 year old is not going to understand reasoning..

(-EDIT- my little sister and brother, for example.. were raised under the same circumstances.. and she just happened to stay quiet/shy and good, while my brother would ALWAYS test his boundaries. Different kids need different treatment. Just the thought that someone feels upset with my sister at 3 was enough to make her sad and start acting right... my brother could give to fwords about how others felt, and would keep pushing and pushing until he got punished.)

And I know plenty of people who physically punish their dogs when they're puppies. For example... it's a common thing here for if a dog pisses on the floor in the house, to rub their face in the piss then kick them out of the house for a few days.. as a part of training.