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WaryWitchWandering · 36-40, F
To me it’s abuse… period.
I take away things when my children act out. Or they are sent to their room to think, and I talk to them about it once they are calm and have given their actions a thought.
Both my kids know what is expected of them, without me having to smack them around to terrify them into behaving.
I know spanking is always a controversial topic, I know two people who use it as discipline… and it just doesn’t seem to have any positive effect. I keep my mouth shut because people parent differently, and many believe spanking is not abuse… it makes me wildly anxious and sad though.
I take away things when my children act out. Or they are sent to their room to think, and I talk to them about it once they are calm and have given their actions a thought.
Both my kids know what is expected of them, without me having to smack them around to terrify them into behaving.
I know spanking is always a controversial topic, I know two people who use it as discipline… and it just doesn’t seem to have any positive effect. I keep my mouth shut because people parent differently, and many believe spanking is not abuse… it makes me wildly anxious and sad though.
4meAndyou · F
@WaryWitchWandering I agree with you completely. I was never spanked as a child, but my mother would chase me through the house in a mad fury, and when she finally caught me, she would haul off and smack my right across the face as hard as she could. I would say that she only deepened my feelings of defiance and resentment with her behavior.
I resolved NEVER to strike my son, physically, and although I did, ONCE, I apologized to him afterward.
I resolved NEVER to strike my son, physically, and although I did, ONCE, I apologized to him afterward.
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