<p>I wouldn't since I've had to deal with enough pain from authoritarian personalities who wanted to control me and only cause me pain.</p>
<p>It might have been necessary in an authoritarian society. But in a society like this, people already have plenty of freedom to explore and to learn things by themselves. So just give them it. </p>
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<p>But I probably won't have children since I'm way too libertarian/permissive to raise children anyways.</p>
<p>No. I wasn’t spanked, so it’s hard for me to see why I would spank my child.</p>
<p>um… maybe occasionally but generally no</p>
<p>If they were out of line, then yes. But not hard… just hard enough to scare them out of doing something stupid.</p>
<p>Depends on the kid. Some kids might need it. I’m more into cruel and unusual punishment though, like making kids eat nothing but boiled cabbage for a week, or giving them a hideous haircut. Oooh, that last one might have some horrendous psychological effects.</p>
<p>I would not. I think that children will act as their parents taught them, and I don’t want my child to treat others in that way. I would want them to learn to solve conflict in a calm and collected manner.</p>
<p>No, but I probably would over discipline out of anger.</p>
<p>Like 3 hours time out for a 4 year old or something like that.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine anybody would say “yes, I intend to spank my child”, I see most parents doing it as a last resort, and because they don’t know how else to discipline their child.
If I had a child, I intend on having a close relationship with them where they open up to me, but that’s rather unrealistic seeing most parents. The more liberal way of raising a child appeals to me.</p>
<p>I hate when i get yelled at and beat up for no reason. If i did have kids i wouldnt want to be mean and angry and hurt them, cause i think they would learn better if i was nice to them. And id make sure they didnt make really bad mistakes. Little ones are ok, but if you watch them enough, then they will stay out of trouble. Thats funny when they have the old movies where kids got their hands smacked with a ruler. That mustve hurt. It would keep everyone from messing around in class though.</p>
<p>No, it isn’t necessary.</p>
<p>an occasional spank or two will show em some discipline</p>
<p>haha check out “beating your children” by russell peters</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Russell Peters - Beating Your Children](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>i hope i dont get caught for posting the youtube link lol…</p>
<p>All I want is to have a child in this ever so unpopulated world.
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<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p>I was spanked. I’m not traumatized by it.<br>
There was this one time my mom sat on me. I am traumatized by that. Never would I do it.</p>
<p>“There was this one time my mom sat on me. I am traumatized by that.”</p>
<p>LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry but I couldn’t help but laugh at that! My friends that are Asian get beat all the time.</p>
<p>Man, some of the things their parents do to them for the littlest things…
One time, my friend forgot to put some food back in the freezer or something stupid like that and her dad literally pulled her hair and started swinging her around and then threw her on the floor.
Yeah, she was ****ed.</p>
<p>Spank? That’s sissy crap. My kid would be lucky if I spanked him. Otherwise, it’s the rod. You can’t go wrong with the rod.</p>
<p>That sounds painful</p>
<p>I would do as Nervusbreakdown says,because physical violence rarely breeds the right results.Temporarily,physical action may force results,but in the long term,it only leads to hate and vengeance.Besides,this is a whole new world,and better ways of discipline have evolved.A little spanking though is not harmful.</p>
<p>I guess it depends a lot on the child’s temperament, but never having been spanked, I don’t think it’s necessary in raising a well-behaved and well-adjusted child. Then again, that’s not to say that kids who have been spanked become violent or otherwise screwed up.</p>
<p>No. I don’t see how people can make excuses for spanking a child to teach discipline. Is that really any different than an abusive husband claiming he hits his wife to teach her discipline?</p>
<p>if you were asian, you’d understand. we don’t dare disrespect our parents</p>
<p>^ Exactly! And spanking a child just shows that the parent has failed in finding a more civilized way to discipline their child - not that the child has failed.</p>