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Originally Posted by STeeLy
The thing is (and definitely not speaking from experience here) that there is not one right way to raise a kid. There should definitely be a balance between punishment and reward. Definitely need to have one with the other.
But that's dragging this off topic to how to raise a child instead of purely on spanking.
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I don't disagree except for well the fact the way I raise my children is the correct way!
Just saying that for our kids we have one where the one instance things got pushed too far spanking was effective. For the other not so much. And timeouts have the opposite effect. They are different people and get disciplined as different people.
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Who is training who here?
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Yeah we've gotten that before when talking about this issue with others except they are dead serious. I might even believe those people if we didn't have a more effective way to deal with his transgressions and keep him from those transgressions (he thrives when things are very well structured perhaps overly so for many kids).
All in all our kids are really well behaved and they know we don't put up with stuff that is unacceptable (in our eyes). We've had restaurant walk outs. I've walked out of a theater with my daughter during previews (man did that one put her straight when it comes to behaving in public! it also scared her brother straight and he wasn't even there!) etc etc.