I encourage ALL who are in favor of spanking to remember what it FELT LIKE (physically AND emotionally) to be spanked by the person (or people if more than one adult spanked) that YOU LOVED most in the world?!! I'm not speaking yet to "whether or not it stopped the behavior"...I'm speaking from THE CHILD'S viewpoint! Can you HONESTLY say that as a child you walked away after being spanked thinking "gosh, I shouldn't have done that (bad behavior) because IT'S THE WRONG THING TO DO?!" Remember, we're talking about being A CHILD (2, 3, 4, 5...when the majority of spanking supposedly occurs!) Even MORE importantly, did you walk away "FEELING" like "my mom (dad, grandma,etc.)who says she LOVES me hit me (which by the way children CAN NOT distinguish between "hitting" and "spanking") because I made a bad choice of behavior and upset them?" OR...did YOU maybe walk away FEELING humiliated, confused about "what LOVE looks & feels like?"...and THAT YOU BETTER NOT EVER MAKE "MISTAKES" AGAIN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO EXPERIENCE WHAT YOU JUST DID?!" Hmmm...I wonder if that might REALLY be why children feel they HAVE to lie...hide their mistakes from and turn to peers for advice instead of the PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO LOVE THEM UNCONDITIONALLY-- their parents?! Afterall...as "adults" (parents) is it MORE important to you (for YOUR comfort sake and to make YOU "feel better in that moment" that your child STOPS that behavior....or MORE important that your child ALWAYS FEELS LOVED by you WHILE continuing to KNOW that YOU LOVE THEM ALWAYS?!(REGARDLESS of any mistakes they make make!) There ARE ways to have the behavior(s) STOP while honoring and nurturing your child's (age-appropriate) emotional experiences!! I can tell you FROM EXPERIENCE (as a child who was spanked...as a mom who raised two sons to adulthood WITHOUT SPANKING who both are preschool & elementary age TEACHERS themselves!...and as a teacher for MANY years of preschool age children myself!) that children CANNOT make these level of ADULT "distinctions" that "it's o.k. for mom/dad to spank me when I'm bad and they're upset with my behavior" BUT "it's NOT o.k. when I GET UPSET (as a child) to hit my friends, siblings, etc." I see it EVERYDAY in classrooms with young children...and when questioning the parents "if they spank slap hands of, etc. their child at home?"...inevitably, the response is "Yes!" A parent's MOST IMPORTANT JOB (other than keeping their child safe!) is to ROLE-MODEL (thru actions!) WHAT LOVE AND SELF-CONTROL "look like"! Hitting your child (when you're upset...DISAPPOINTED in their behavior...ANYTIME!) IS LOUSY ROLE-MODELING!! All of the young children I have worked with (for OVER fifteen years in classrooms)...ALL the children who are TOO YOUNG to speak for themselves...ALL of us who REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE as children to be spanked (HIT!)by the PEOPLE WE LOVED MOST IN THE WORLD(!)...are BEGGING THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE STILL SPANKING...SLAPPING HANDS OR FACES, etc....PLEASE STOP!! Children learn THROUGH OBSERVATION (ROLE-MODELING) of "what it IS to be a human "be"-ing who is KIND, SELF(!)-CONTROLLED, PATIENT(!), LOVING(!),GENEROUS, etc. and gain HIGH SELF-ESTEEM in the process!...NOT by people bigger than them CONTROLLING their behavior by physical actions! PLEASE!...consider the "experience of" spanking FROM your child's perspective (rather than yours!) BEFORE you choose to spank again! THANK YOU FROM ALL YOUR CHILDREN!!...and YES! I do know of and am willing to share alternatives to spanking for having your child make GREAT behavorial choices!

This is exactly why we have a bunch of children running around here with no disciplin, regards, and respect for authority? We are raising our children to become little brats and it is not setting them up for real life situations. Spanking does not mean abuse! and it also does not mean beat the crap out of your child. If you have a child talking back to you, and disrecpecting you then a little spanking needs to take place. Time out is bull and it doesn't work. It really [filtered word]es me off, when people and there stupid research about how spanking does this and that can never offer another solution. What do you do when your child is disrespectful and talking back to you. I also find that American children are the worst. When you look at other cultures those children are well behaved. Also, spanking is not sending the message to the child that it is Ok to hit other people. Spanking is sending a message that there are consequences for your inappropriate behavior, and spanking just happen to be one of them. Stop all this crap about how spanking is abuse.

When a child is out of order and have been told to stop and their answere is no or shutup. Yes its time to spank his butt and say don't tell me to shutup any more, or u tell them something to do and their answere is no angain spank that butt and u do this when they are very young u stop it at the begaining,u teach them from the time they can see ur mouth move give them something, you say thank u. they sneeze ur say, excuse me and put their little hans to their mouth. Yes i got spanked when I was growingup no I didn't like it and i didn't do it whatever any more. Talk back O no u didn't dare do that at lease why u were standing in front of ur parents. spanking is not the same as beating a kid with your fist or knocking them aside of the head. Look around at our young generation since the judge when into the our home the took our kids away from us, now our kids have gone wild in everyway they can think of they have taken over the streets and our homes. They tell us we can't hit but they give the policeman these hard bill sticks and they beat our kids with them and the judges and the polition sit in their big chairs and around the table and pretend they no what they are doing. kids are making bombs in their rooms for god sakes, kids are shoots up classrooms and now they are send our kids to jail as adults (our babies) and tell us not to spank them. Yes parents are getting more angry then ever before because of what the grownups are telling our kids.They allow the movies makers to show and put anything they want to in movies and TV. Yes parents should have the power to spank their kids if they need it and these men that have controll over the country and states and cities. Stay out of our homes tellin us how to rear ou kids and let kids be kids to much information to kids are no good, don't u see what going on put your glasses on and see whats going on in the streets and our homes. Slaves u beat our bodies until their was no place to touch and now here u are again in our homes tellin us what to do and in all of your homes kids are just as bad but u have the power to send them to camps and private schools. Judges, Governor, congressman sentors house of representive u are the reason our kids are gone wild, they say can't touch me. You have a terrible conbination don't spank your childre and don't pray in schools do you going to jail, what are yall doing to our children go to the jails and look at your handiwork
Yes spank

I say Spank!! I got my butt busted more times than I can count Mommy even broke a pink avon hair bush on me it wasn't abuse she always just whipped me on my butt. When I was 12 she went to kick me on the butt and about broke her foot. She would always say this hurts me worse than it hurts you.Now that I'm older I don't regret any of the spankings. If I had children I would bust there butt. That's what is wrong with the kids today they should be spanked instead of time out they rule the house it's whatever the kids want blah blah blah. I live beside 2 little boys one has a smart mouth if he had a few butt busting I think that smart mouth would go right out of the door.

don't spank your kids.....don't kill flies...don;t pick your nose..you dumb pc ass wholes are why things are as bad as they are. Are parents did it right.