spanking???

I don't believe I should be hitting children.I'm big.... they are little...I found loads of ways to punish the kids without hitting and I've raise 7..youngest is 17...I do know people that spank their kids and it kinda feels like they do it for themselves not to teach the kid.I'm not saying I feel competient to tell others weather or not to spank but for me and my children I didn't want it.

I have a hard time saying it's wrong, I say I don't believe in it. I don't like to criticize parents, but this I just don't get. You can raise an honorable child without raising a hand to them. I was never spanked and I don't spank my son. He sure can push my buttons, but if I react on that it just makes things worse. I'll put him in time out, he hates that. When he gets older, I'll take away privelages and toys. When I was growing up, the worst was when my toys got taken away. I'd have to work hard, scrub toilets for weeks to get them back.

the bible itself says spare the rod and spoil the child. i think spanking should be a must but it shouldnt be everytime so that the kid doesnt not feel victimised or threathened. Without spanking i believe a child could get out of hand. i had a moderate amount of spanking and i think it has actually helped in how i lived my life today

I feel that spanking can get out of hand. I do spank my child once in a while when it is absolutely necessary. When she keeps doing something over and over and has been in time out for it and she still doesn't listen than yes she gets a spankin. But I was spanked as a child with a leather belt. That is something that will not be done to my child. I feel that sometimes people take spanking way overboard when they are mad and just overdue it. I see nothing wrong with a little spanking every once in a while to get your point across just don't make it into a beating out of anger. If you are so angry that you feel you are going to snap then put the child in the room and walk away for a couple of minutes or until you have cooled down.

I too grew up in a household that spanking was acceptable. To be honest I can count on one hand how many spankings I actually received from my mom though. But when I did get a spanking, I knew that I had went way too far over the line, and I deserved it. :) That said, I still turned into a little demon child with no respect for my mother at all for a couple of years. But I digress.... I have 3 children of my own now, 4-7, and I try to follow along in my mom's footsteps and set groundrules that they all know and that do not ever change. They know there will be some kind of punishment coming if they break my very simple rules. Do not lie to me or anyone else, we do not hit someone else just because we are angry or frustrated with them, you do not talk back to your mother, and simplest of all, just listen when you are told to do something! :) I don't think I expect too much by asking my children to follow these short simple rules, but if they will not listen and refuse to shape up with other methods, then yes, they can look forward to my hand connecting with their little behinds. I do not spank them often, but my children have come to learn that if I feel like I have to resort to a spanking for them to listen to me, they have pushed the limits way too far. Believe me, I would much rather not to have to spank my children ever again in their lives, but I really don't see that happening all that soon, as much as I could hope.:)

I think kids should be spanked. Not hard and not a lot but every once in awhile a good slap on the backside is what you need to stay in line. I think I got spanked maybe twice growing up and I never did the same offense twice. I think kids today know they can get away with anything and the worst that happens is they have to have a "time out"

i guess it really depends on your country's culture,here in our country we encouraged spanking our children to disciplin them but we must be responsible enough to explain them why we have to spank them