The Christian Smacking Manual!!

[emaN]

I already see what you are saying.

wikkid! someone who gets me!
can you tell my mrs how to do it?!

[The Stranger:Me]

can you tell my mrs how to do it?!

Well yeah I can, but probably best if I demonstrate how it's done.

[DMNTD:Me]

Sometimes most kids need a smack...at no time do kids need 15mins of physical punishment,ever!
I've smack all of my kids from an early age when it was required. They all respect me (no not from fear either),they do as they are told therefore get treated with much respect and get to do as they desire...IF deserving.
I'd definately step in and sort an adult that was wasting a kid...100%

[mstriumph]

............. No one has the right to smack any kids....Period.................
Besides......They will be bigger and stronger than you one day and then you'll be sorry!

understand your viewpoint but you seem to be confusing smacking with bullying.

smacking a tiny child's hand away as it reaches towards a hot stove and saying "no" isn't, IMO, the same as taking ones belt off and beating the child senseless with it

in the first instance, the intention is to educate .. to form the association in the infant's mind between the hot stove and pain but WITHOUT the damage associated with actually getting burnt .... done correctly it probably only needs to be done once - after that the word 'no' usually suffices

my 2c

[ogr1]

You involved my personal circumstances when you generalised that the problem is caused by "Part time parents". (my profile and my first post make my circumstances clear)

Broken families can have a devastating effect on kids, and adults, but it is not the reason for child abuse.

IMHO, the reason for some of the bashings we see, could be a result of people building up frustration with the lack of adequate parenting techniques; the feeling they are powerless to effectively discipline their children, then one day, pow, they explode. Of course, there is also the people that just have no idea, and beat the shit out of everyone, kids, spouses, people at the pub, people that cut them off while driving, I doubt there is any helping those, except prison and castration.

The thing is, a lot of people smack, yet there are not many (comparatively) that abuse (physically at least), granted, the not many there are, are too many.

I was'nt having a pop at you cause your a single parent, honest...........
I was generalizing about some parents being lazy and a quick smack is the answer to everything that they consider to be out of line.
I guess the thread pissed me off and I gave it a knee jerk reaction.
I bit and along came the responses, some true and some piss taking, though I'm not biting anymore.

If you guys thought I was being "Godly"? Well I was'nt and there was no "holy'er than thow" intended.

Cheers

Karl.