I Spank My Children

Truth, truth! Our school's paddle wasn't a paddle as much as a flat stick somewhat like those stir sticks hardware stores use to dip in paint and stir it up. My mam used a wooden spoon, sometimes belt.

It sounds harsh to people not used to the concept or rushing to call it abuse, but we were never ( at least none in my family ) disciplined without reason nor with anger. It was seldom and we were told the reason why.

I talked to am Amish girl a few years ago who was 18 or 19. She was out on that period they are allowed to experience the real world for a time before going back. She said spankings for older girls were in the barn bent over a rail skirt up with a razor strap across their panties by their fathers. They were not bare it was considered not decent. She did not mention school spankings.

I heard somewhere that 16 is considered the "age of adulthood" with the Amish. They can't really experience the outside world as 16-year-olds, but they can stop being ruled by their parents.

So, is corporal punishment practiced up to and including age 15, but then no more after turning 16?

Is there any adult spanking, such as husbands spanking wives?

How about differences between the most old-fashioned type of Amish, and the more modern Mennonites?

I've noticed a continuing outright lie going on regarding the use of a claim that a professional medical organization supports spanking. The person making this claim is saying the organization has a large membership when in reality it has a very small membership. There is a large difference in the size of membership between the two different professional pediatric medical organizations. The membership in the American College of Pediatrics is NOT 60,000 as claimed, but some where between 200 and 600, and it's only been in existence since 2002 where as the American Academy of Pediatrics membership is over 60,000 doctors and began in the late 1930's. The AAP opposes all corporal punishment of children. The ACP is an alt-right fringe group of doctors that support child spanking. Why does a person that supports spanking think its acceptable to boldly lie about the membership number of the ACP to make it appear to look like pro-spanking is some majority position without worrying about the spiritual consequences of this deception? The truth is there is NO professional organization in large numbers that supports the spanking of children in the U.S.

The Amish are fairly strict too and tend to err on the side of strict discipline. No symbolic spankings there and I have heard it tends to be something that leaves an impression. For the older kids that would mean more than even a hairbrush

When I taught (in a school where corporal punishment was extensively used) we also used to get many compliments on our pupils' behaviour and on their sunny disposition.

Maybe it doesn't need spanking, to make a child well mannered and well behaved. But a child definitely needs rules and discipline to be trained to be well mannered and well behaved. Providing no rules and discipline is not different to child neglection.

A well spanked child is a well behaved one.

Spot on truth!

On a more general point it seems that the Amish might be a model for orthodox (small "o" orthodox) Christians in a post (anti) Christian society.

Children need to be reproved. Without it they will remain self centered and entitle little brats their whole lives.

We spanked our children as well.

An exterior that is too quiet often hides a deeply troubled interior. Those kids are gonna grow up to be fucked up adults, and in worst cases, will pass it on to their kids as well. And the whole circle becomes poisonous.