Are you going to spank your future children?

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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.