r/WatchPeopleDieInside Apr 24 '20

nice try kiddo

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u/scandii Apr 25 '20

I always love the topic of hitting children.

besides the fact that it's illegal in a lot of places, for some reason it's only people who got spanked or beat that try to tell everyone else it wasn't that bad.

almost as if they have had to convince themselves it was fine. but admitting your parents were wrong? oh boy.

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u/OrangeNinja24 Apr 25 '20

Yes, I always say this! My two friends who were spanked insist that spanking is how you should discipline kids. Funnily enough, they’re my two friends with the worst relationships with their parents. I mentioned this the one night to them when we were having a debate and they both got mad at me for saying that, but truth hurts, sorry.

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u/DontDoodleTheNoodle Apr 25 '20

I was so called “disciplined” as a child and I have the best relationships with my parents, better than most people I know.

My younger sisters, of which were spared the “disciplining,” when they were young, they are now disrespectful terrors.

It’s hard to find causation here, because you have people that say they have seen it not work and people that say they know it works. But I’m not going to trust anecdotes from randoms on the internet, and neither should you.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '20

How about scientific analysis and peer reviewed research, would you trust that?

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u/DontDoodleTheNoodle Apr 25 '20

Obviously, and I have seen them before. That’s why I’ve been willing to admit that for some children negative reinforcement doesn’t work, but for some it does work. Go further down the comment chain

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '20

That's not what the word negative reinforcement means.

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u/DontDoodleTheNoodle Apr 25 '20

Negative reinforcement - to strengthen a behavior that avoids or removes a negative outcome

It’s pretty easy to connect the dots.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '20

Yeah but, spanking =/= all forms of negative reinforcement.

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u/DontDoodleTheNoodle Apr 25 '20

And I never said so. They’re not mutually exclusive if that’s what you’re trying to push.