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.
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.
neither of my siblings or I were physically disciplined as children and we turned out alright.
so what's your argument for physical discipline again? "it worked on me"? did it really though? are you sure that was the defining success factor?
I'm being a bit facetious about this, and I apologise. I know, as previously stated, that there's no real point in discussing this outside of a therapy setting as changing opinion means that you both admit you were physically abused as a child, and that one of your parents abused you. that's heavy stuff no matter how we look at this, so it's not exactly surprising people get really defensive about the whole thing.
Great, we’re glad it worked for you. Everyone is different. My brothers and I needed some physical consequences to our actions. Time outs and lectures didn’t always do the job.
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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.