Spare the Rod?

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  Posted By: Sally87UK @ 04/09/2008 3:43:01 PM

  Another thing I forgot to add - though I'mnot particularly for or against, there is nothing that annoys me more than the varients of the 'You don't spank your wife , or a boss doesn't spank his employee, why should you do it to a child?' nonsense. You don't ground your spouse, either, and your boss won't put you in time out or take away your cellphone. Guess what, kids aren't adults.

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  Posted By: Sally87UK @ 04/09/2008 3:03:41 PM

  I don't feel that strongly either way but the one thing that struck me reading this article is that none of the scientists stated what seems the most obviuos thing - that the kids that got spanked 'a lot', might have been so because they were the naughtiest? In that case maybe the differences in behaviour as adults have as much to do with personality differences as spanking...just a thought.

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  Posted By: shelshok @ 04/07/2008 3:40:02 PM

  I didn't get 'spankings,' those are for sissies (just kidding). I got 'whoopins.' If I knew that I was not supposed to do something and did it anyway, KNOWING that I was going to get a whoopin, I made a decision to get a whoopin. My parents did not abuse me; but they backed up what they said. If you do something bad, something bad will happen. That 'bad' was my father telling ne to "go get a switch and it better not be little." Do my kids get whoopins? Absolutely, if they deserve it.