bells your a very selective reader and only answer certin questions.. i havve asked you not to use smack you continue to.. its SPANK. and SPANKING is only use as a last resort all other options have been extinguishted.. and im fairly confident you wont answer the question presented to you about what to do if none of your grounding. timeout s dont work. again your thought is wrong your twisting what were saying you said
You are going to debate the use of the word?
Again, provide scientific evidence that "spanking" is beneficial to children in the long term. Studies have been done and they found that it was not beneficial to children in the long term. Surely some studies have been done to show the opposite, since you keep pushing that same argument. Provide some links.
"I see people get upset if they don't get their own way immediately. And impatience leads to poor decision making"
didnt think id have to do this but
"child will contunte to do said action after every punishment"
please dont trown the ball timmy
timmy dont throw the ball serious look
go over to child get down to there level look into childs eyes timmy i said dont throw the ball takes the ball away
timmy grabs another ball.
timmy go sit in the corner for 5 min. time out
timmy gets out of timeout grabs a ball and throws it..
timmy get to your room now! your grounded
timmy gets out of his room comes downstairs and starts throwing the ball again
timmy gets spanked
You would "spank" a child for throwing a ball?
You would ground a child for throwing a ball?
How about this alternative. Take all the balls away from little Timmy. You know, remove temptation? Explain to Timmy why you don't want him to throw the ball anymore. You know, take time and actually try to get them to understand why his throwing the ball is bad.
here we go bells if this fails then i give up. since you keep compareing children to adults for some unknown reason ill but it in your ters
I see that spanking has not helped you much with the use of the english language.
That sentence made absolutely no sense.
Police are your parents
grown man/woman is the child
now answere this for me
cop asks you to do something you are insubordinate
cop asks you again your still insubordinate
cop tells you to get down on the ground insubordinate
cop either tazes your or uses force to get you to do what they say your now handcuffed and going to jail for insubordinate
depending on how insubordinate you were
you could be charged with assualting an officer along with insubordination
now your in jail
Lets taser children!
You are aware that the police are constantly investigated in the use of tasers and for police brutality, right? That the use of tasers is highly regulated. You do know this, right?
Spanking without an explanation contributes little to discipline. In fact, studies have shown that calm spanking preceded by a rational explanation does less harm and more good than spanking without such reasoning. Explaining the punishment can be therapeutic for both the spanker and the spankee. It helps you decide whether or not your action is appropriate. It makes it less likely that the child will repeat the misbehavior, gives your child a chance to make a judgment about the fairness of the action, and preserves the self-image of the child by treating him as a rational person. The child will feel angry and humiliated about the spanking if he feels that there is no reason for it.
Do you have a link for that?
For example, if I post or quote from another site, I have to at the very least provide a link for it. As such:
Study: Harm Outweighs Benefits of Spanking washingtonpost.com - June 26, 2002 Spanking children can make them temporarily more compliant but causes more problems than it cures by raising the risk that children will become aggressive, antisocial and chronically defiant, according to new research.
The discipline technique is also associated with delinquency, a failure to learn right from wrong, and an increased risk that the spanking might turn into child abuse, according to the author of one of the most comprehensive examinations of the subject.
"The bottom line is that corporal punishment is associated with numerous risks for children," said Elizabeth Gershoff, a researcher at Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty. "I would argue parents should to the best of their ability avoid using corporal punishment and instead use nonphysical and more positive types of discipline that we know are effective."
While many studies have tried to assess the effects of spanking, Gershoff's study, based on an analysis of 88 studies over 62 years, quantifies the effects of spanking on 11 child behaviors. Apart from immediate compliance, Gershoff found that spanking had negative effects on the other behaviors.
(Source)
It's actually not that hard. You should give it a try.
Ophiolite said:
By the frigging definition of the frigging word. I gave you one definition from an online dictionary: Physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing.
Or from Collins Concise Dictionary, a respected UK reference: The exercise or instance of physical force, usually effecting or intended to effect injuries, destruction etc.
I had a case, several years ago, where a spouse attempted to use that very argument about the "spanking" he gave his wife on a daily basis. In his mind, he was not violating or abusing her, nor was he causing any damage. He was just attempting to educate her about the right way of doing things. It didn't get very far.
That is not what corporal punishment is about, when correctly and appropriately applied. It is intended to communicate the extent to which the child's behaviour is inappropriate; to underline the patient verbal explanation of the inappropriateness. It is not intended to violate, damage, abuse, injure or destroy, therefore it is not violent.
The very act of hitting someone is a violation against that other person, and yes, children are people too. You can refer to it by any name, be it spanking, smacking, slapping, the act itself is indicative of raising one's hand or object (eg paddle, hair brush, belt) and striking another person. How is that not violent in your eyes?
Referring to it as corporal punishment does not take away the simple fact that you are hitting another individual with force. You can try to pretty it up and say that you are trying to educate or communicate to the child that their behaviour is innappropriate. It still does not detract from the very simple fact that you are striking that child in doing so. Hitting another person is violent. It doesn't make it less so because the individual being spanked/hit/smacked/paddled is a child.
If you spank an adult and whether it leaves a mark or not, it is still assault. If you spank a child and it doesn't leave a mark, it is not deemed as assault, but is viewed as a form of communication. It is only deemed assault if it bruises the child. Those rules only apply to children. Spanking an adult, bruise or no bruise, is deemed violent and abusive. What I want to know is why the same rules do not apply to children? They don't even apply to animals. If you spank a dog to teach it the error of its ways and to train it, you can find yourself arrested and jailed. But if you do the same to a child, it is acceptable. It is astounding to me how this can be so and how and why people attempt to justify it.
Your subsequent arguments on mental development appear specious. You are raising the false sense that we should be protecting 'the mentally underdeveloped' and that means protecting them from violence. You fail to understand that application of a physical 'shock' to an immature mind that is not responding to verbal reasoning can, applied in the right way, in the right context, etc, get their attention and help communicate the seriousness with which their behaviour is viewed. We are, through this action, protecting the mentally immature (why can't you just call them children?) from themselves.
Would you advocate the same argument against the mentally disabled?
Of course it's frigging selective. Where are the citations for the studies that show the damage done by verbal abuse of children, or psychological abuse related to the witholding of parental love and affection, etc? Where are the studies that show where the balance exists between these? Why haven't I cited them? I don't even know if these studies have been done. They don't appear to be, so until they are, or someone points me to the findings I shall stay with my well honed ape instincts that have served us for millions of years and administer when necessary a gentle slap on the wrist - physical or verbal as appropriate.
All the studies I have cited show those as being preferable to spanking. We all know that verbally abusing a child is abuse. I doubt anyone is going to argue that point. The same can be said for witholding parental love and affection.
There is no exact balance, because every child is different. But all the studies I have read over the years all point to the same thing. Hitting a child, call it spanking, smacking, paddling, etc, is still a violent act against a child. It may provide an immediate desired reaction from the child, but there is a risk of long term damage. And with some children, more so.
I was occasionally spanked as a child and I have absolutely no idea what long term effect, if any it had on me.
I do know my exemplary conduct in secondary school was almost entirely attributable to the threat of 'the belt', a thick leather strap, applied to the outstretched hands - maximum number of permitted blows: six.
Would you do the same with your children?
My parents never once threatened me to do well in school. Not once. I was brought up to believe that the only thing they expected from me was for me to try my best and not give up. And I did pretty well. Never got into trouble and never even got detention and I got straight A's. Instead of threats of violence, I was supported by my parents.
Neverfly said:
Ask around, you find plenty who are not like you, as well. One of them, sifreak, just posted.
And it shows with sifreak, don't you think?
He's willing to "spank" a child for throwing a ball. Instead of taking all the balls away and explaining why he's doing it, instead of explaining why he doesn't want "Timmy" to not throw the ball, instead of explaining why Timmy is getting the time out's, etc, he rather just "spank" because apparently all the other methods failed. What do you think he could have done differently? I'll giv eyou a hint.. explained to Timmy why he did not want him to throw the ball.. You know, take time and get down to their level and explain things to them.