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Originally Posted by corporatejay
In the interests of full disclosure I do not have children.
I can understand some parents using it on rare occasion when kids are young, but I think once you can reason with them to some degree, it's better to show them why their actions are wrong instead of just spanking them. Hopefully when they're older you've trained them to reason for themselves.
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I'm with you, both in that I have no kids, and agree with you. I've watched my friends raise their kids using different methods, and the most effective measure I've seen from them has been sending the kids to their rooms and telling them to think about what they did wrong and why mom and dad are so upset. I'm thinking it works so well because the threat of a spanking is still there, but mainly because the parent/child relationship is strong enough that the thought of upsetting their parents is enough to make the kids change their behavior. These parents that do this I have never seen actually have to spank their kids, and usually after a while the kids come out of the room crying and seemingly truly apologetic and upset.
Of course it could all be just an act in order to avoid the spanking. Kids aren't dumb
