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Yeah, I only remember grandma's spoon used only a few times between me, my brother & sister. It wasn't used enough to strengthen itself, combined with the dry weather led to it's demise.
that's usually how any spankings have occurred for me with my kids - no foul language retorts yet, they're 5 & almost 4 - but they will be doing something or guilty of something that prompts that lightening quick whap on the butt. Usually like I'll catch my son whip a block or something and it hits my daughter square in the head...or daughter pushes son down the stairs type of stuff. Only once have I "laid into" one of them, and this after giving multiple outs & chances to avoid discipline escalation...sometimes kids have to see the escalated result or threat carried thru to remember to be scared of it. Fortunately, any spankings (relatively rare anyways) have tapered off as they get out of the pigheaded toddler years.I remember vividly the last time I got a "spanking". I was 13 at the time and was hanging out with the wrong crowd. I got home really late and my Dad asked me where I was. My response to him was "Why don't you go **** off." Next thing you know I caught the quickest back hand to the mouth. I swear my dad was trained by Bruce Lee. That was the one spanking that really straightened me out. I know I deserved it and I'm glad my parents didn't take my BS or else I would not be where I am now.
i don't take his viewpoints or opinion wholesale verbatim, but I do think Dr. Dobson's observations on child-rearing & strong willed kids are pretty succinct.I don't think you need to hit or spank your kids, yes it was done to me on rare occasion, but outside of the child doing something pretty dangerous, say running across a busy parking lot (saw this a couple of weeks ago) I don't think it is warranted.
It seems to me the main problem is that my friends with children don't seem to understand discipline, the purpose of discipline is to help a child learn how to control their behavior and emotions.
It seems most parents today are much more concerned about positive reinforcement and self esteem of their kid. I am not saying that isn't important just that I would rather have a highly disciplined child with average self esteem than the other way around.
Maybe this is because so many adults today were raised by just one parent and grew up with low self esteem and are now trying to fix a problem in their own lives thru their children.
Ditto.i don't take his viewpoints or opinion wholesale verbatim, but I do think Dr. Dobson's observations on child-rearing & strong willed kids are pretty succinct.
My parents had a paddle with painting of a bear sneaking up on a deer in the woods. It was captioned, "For the little dear with the bare behind."My mom used a paint-stirrer that she had painted kind of colorfully with the title "The Board of Education".
too cuteMy parents had a paddle with painting of a bear sneaking up on a deer in the woods. It was captioned, "For the little dear with the bare behind."
yeah. in a "Happiness is a warm gun" kind of way.too cuteMy parents had a paddle with painting of a bear sneaking up on a deer in the woods. It was captioned, "For the little dear with the bare behind."
Are you disparaging snick's bare ***?It's only cute because it's not your bare ***...
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