Spanking or no spanking?

It's better not to spank, if you get very angry or stressed you can go too far. There are other ways.

it depends on the behavior of a kid. if he's a hard headed will you have the reason to spank them but make sure to explain later in a nice way (not by shouting) the reason why you hurt them and i'm sure they will understand just the way i descipline my 11 yr old sister. hope this can help!

i use to smack my children if they were really naughty but never did i have any problems taking the five of them anywhere they did behave when they were suppose to,which was a blessing .Now a days i look after other peoples children and would never smack them instead i have a naughty step that works wonderfully well it only takes a few minutes of sitting on the step for them to realise i mean buisness and only have looked after one little boy who needed to sit there a few times before he complied . I have no problems in talking any number of children out with me because they know i mean no when i say no . I enjoy looking after children and they enjoy coming to my home as they all want to stay with me when its home time we have so many tears but they are all wonderful children.

I used the pick up the child away from the situation result. I never had trouble getting my children to behave in restaurants because we started when very young, and they copied what we did.

All kids need to learn the limits of acceptability and a spank at the right time will teach them early on where the limit is.

The critical thing is to spank them early and way before you are loosing your temper. That way you will easily control the amount of force you use.

I am like you. I don't like spanking but I also realize that sometimes there is no other way to get your point across. My son is 8 so I don't spank him anymore. I think he is too old for it and I can actually discuss with him his actions and why there were incorrect. My daughter is 1 1/2 and very hard headed. When she wants to do something she is determined. The other day I had to spank her because she insisted she was going to stick a fork in the light socket. All my persuading, telling her no, trying to get her interested in something else, etc. didn't work. I had to spank her. It was either that or let her do it and fly across the room.