Well how bout that? You mean to tell me that if a child comes to feel that there are undesirable consequences to acting certain ways, he or she may not act that way? Well, glory be, who-da thunk it?
Note that neither this study, the story, nor I is advocating child abuse. What I am saying is that a healthy fear of a spanking is a superb deterrent, one increasingly out of fashion with a generation of parents who wish to relate to their children as simply small adults. They aren't.
HT--Instapundit
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I couldn't agree more!!!
A spanking! A spanking! Me first! I've been very naughty!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtcSYPjJbgg
Child buttock-battering vs. DISCIPLINE:
Child buttock-battering (euphemistically labeled "spanking","swatting","switching","smacking", "paddling",or other cute-sounding names) for the purpose of gaining compliance is nothing more than an inherited bad habit.
Its a good idea for people to take a look at what they are doing, and learn how to DISCIPLINE instead of hit.
I think the reason why television shows like "Supernanny" and "Dr. Phil" are so popular is because that is precisely what many (not all) people are trying to do.
There are several reasons why child bottom-slapping isn't a good idea. Here are some good, quick reads recommended by professionals:
Plain Talk About Spanking
by Jordan Riak,
The Sexual Dangers of Spanking Children
by Tom Johnson,
NO VITAL ORGANS THERE, So They Say
by Lesli Taylor M.D. and Adah Maurer Ph.D.
Most compelling of all reasons to abandon this worst of all bad habits is the fact that buttock-battering can be unintentional sexual abuse for some children. There is an abundance of educational resources, testimony, documentation, etc available on the subject that can easily be found by doing a little research with the recommended reads-visit www.nospank.net.
Just a handful of those helping to raise awareness of why child bottom-slapping isn't a good idea:
American Academy of Pediatrics,
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Center For Effective Discipline,
Churches' Network For Non-Violence,
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Parenting In Jesus' Footsteps,
Global Initiative To End All Corporal Punishment of Children,
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In 26 countries, child corporal punishment is prohibited by law (with more in process). In fact, the US was the only UN member that did not ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The vast majority of professionals agree that child buttock-battering isn’t healthy. A marginal few (mostly religious fundamentalists as those at Calvin) think that child bottom-slapping is good. They use the same selective literalist interpretation of the Bible as was used to justify “witch”-burning, depraved torture methods for those accused of sin and heresy, slavery, racism, wife-beating, oppression of women and a host of other social ills.
I absolutely love it when I post something that is only marginally meaningful to me, but which brings out the wing-nut true believers. PDeverit's associated with "Project NoSpank" whose website is here (http://www.nospank.net/)--if you'd like more information on the "spanking is sexual abuse" meme.
Yes. Everyone who takes child welfare seriously is a "wing-nut" (including every professional, association, country, etc. I've listed here.)
Child welfare issues are only "marginally important".
Uh, CW, every time I get spanked, it's more than a meme.
Psssst PDeverit
I don't think CW is saying that "Everyone who takes child welfare seriously is a "wing-nut"".
I think his statement was just his roundabout, non-confrontational, gentlemanly way of indicating that you may be a wing-nut.
Well I should say that I think that spanked husbands are happier, more successful.
HEY NOW!
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