I know that spankings done in a proper manner work a lot better than the TIME OUT!! ,and it all depends on how you spank and when you spank . GOD created a couple of places it is the but or thigh.If you do this when they are young and testing you it won't take but a couple of times for them to learn. If you say the next time you do that i will spank you then you need to do it.It needs to be done without anger and as soon as you can so they forget why they are being spanked.This is most certainly not to be done abusively,as I said a proper way and time

I believe spanking can be a beneficial thing done the right way. A spanking is on the bottom, not across the face or other parts of the body. It is not to be done by a parent in an out of control emotional state. This is best done not on a first offense unless it's something extremely serious. But when a child has a repeated problem with behavior (2nd to 3rd time) you may need to "sort out the top (mind) by modifing the bottom". I was only spanked twice by my mother both were safety issues. Crossing the street when I was not suppose to and putting a fork in an electrical outlet. Both good examples of a need to get your child's attention in a direct way. However I had a step father who bordered on abuse. I did get hit across the face, pulled by my hair to a light switch I left on and the like. I didn't respect him, I feared him but had no love for him. So I've been on both sides of this and I do believe spanking has a place if done with love and concern for your child's safety and with love and concern for your child's character. One person wrote about a father giving his son a pop on the rear after the son was disrespectful of his mother. I think that's appropriate. It shouldn't be the "go to" method of discipline in all cases but it has it's place when done appropriately.

I have 4 boys, and you bet they got spanked when they were growing up. Were they spanked for every infraction? No, they were not. All you have to do is look at how the last two generous have grown up. No discpline, no manners, and they have no respect for anyone. Parents do not have the right to discpline their kids, then the powers to be, wonder why there are gangs, and kids behave the way they do.

Frankly, no one has the right to tell parents how to raise their children. And, for those against spanking? There is a big difference between spanking and beating the living daylights out of a child. Does it make a difference. You bet it does. They will think twice before doing the same thing again.

The things my boys would get spanked for were: talking back, playing with matches, telling lies and taking things that didnt belong to them. Children need structure, and they need limits in what they can do and not do. A couple of swats on their bottom is not gonna damage them. And no, they wont become abusers either. That is a lot of BS.

I am a big believer in TOUGH LOVE. I am also a grandmother of 9, and my grandkids have been spanked, but never beaten.

So, yes. I'm all for spanking when the situation is called for. Oh, getting out in the street was another big no no in our home.

We always tried different ways to discpline before resorting to spanking them. That was the last resort, and they were told one more time and you will get spanked. And, we would follow through.

I grow up in the 60s, we were spanked when doing wrong and it made you think twice later about doing something that wasn't right. In school - and this is High School in the 70's. We skipped school and the principal had a paddle, which he used on our butts, and we dare not tell our parents because we would get nailed again by our parents at home. Now, if you disciple a child at home, its abuse, and its because after the 70s that things stared changing, I'm Chicano, and not offend to white folk, but whites tend to thinks very deep and come up with the wierdest things.. Like time out, etc. Tech also has something to do with this, growing up, we were out hunting with sling shots, bike races, playing football,baseball, never in the house. Now, you can't get kids out because its to hot and they are too busy playing videos games and texting each other.

(PDeverit) You are sick to believe that bull[filtered word], I have been a parent for 27 yrs and that belief is what has turned america into what it is today (not alot to be proud of in our youth) Lets spare them a little humiliation and what? turn them into theives and assasins? they are taking over control of this country. how safe are you going to be in your nursing home when gang members think its more cool to kill with machettes then guns? We obviously need to get control of our youth, this sweetsy please family dynamics are producing overbearing thugs that want to take instead of earn. we need to take control and perhaps we need to reeducate our children on child rearing and how to spank without beating!!!