Hitting childern is necessary for discipline? Will you do it in your family?

I don't think it's necessary to hit children everytime they committed mistakes...My father used to hit me with a guava stick way back when I was a kid and it never done any good to me...It just made me feel mad towards my father and everytime I remember him I just can't stop myself from recalling his angry face while hitting me with that stick...it is a brutal way of discipling a child...it would just traumatize his young mind and it wont do any good in his relationsip with his parents...I still believe in oral discipline...in that way you're teaching your children how to listen and how to comprehend...

Yes when I was a child. I didn't hate my parents of doing that because before they did it they will explain why. It's part of our culture to discipline a child with a stick. I love my parents so much. As what I've read, spanking or beaten up a child teaches kids that It's Ok to hit when they ar angry. But I never in my life have done that when I'm agry with somebody. Rather than teaching kids how to change thier behavior, I believe this, spanking makes them fearful of thier parents and merely teaches them to avoid getting caugth. I still have no children and I'm still studying on how to properly train a child.

I was rarely smacked by my parents when young. I only smacked my daughter a couple of times when she was young. I don't like trhat method of dealing with behaviour. My husband has smacked his children.

I was never beaten and will never beat my children. I think there is a difference in spanking and beating a child. I was spanked but I 100000000% deserved being spanked. It helped me learn not to do certain things and stuff like that. Some people see being spanked as abuse but I came out just fine, so did my husband, and both our families. I will spank my kids if they need it and I already spank my nephew is he needs it. There are times when spanking is approperiate and others when time out will work. Time out doesn't always work and I'm proof of that and so is my nephew. I don't think spanking affects a child on whether they are more active but I do believe they learn disipline. Now beating a child that will not teach anything in my opinion but fear and helping the child keep emotions and feelings inside. This is all just my opinion from personal experience.