"When I'm a parent, I'm not going to punish my child! I will gently..."

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Spanking made me wear glasses.

[Alexander's Horse]

If I had daughters I doubt I could ever strike them. But Mrs Horse would I suspect!

With the boys, its more about the noise you make with your hand and the shame/embarrassment of invading their personal space with your hand rather than inflicting physical pain. It's such a good circuit breaker for tantrums and such like - takes their mind right off whatever it is they are behaving badly about.

One of em said to me that when I hit them it doesn't hurt and I asked him if he would like me to make it hurt? He never brought it up again

They tend to dread being sent to their room more than smacks. I have to hide my face for laughing sometimes at the howls and indignation that can be provoked by the "go to your room" order. It's hilarious.

There's also a category of incident that requires no punishment - like when one of em spilt black model paint all over the family room carpet and in trying to clean it up made a huge black stain, plus fouled the ensuite bathroom basin with black paint. Just being caught was punishment enough. You know the kid has suffered already waiting to be caught. He'd put furniture in an odd position over the stain so he must have known it was inevitable.

On that occasion one of the little kids intercepted me on the way to the family room and said "I'm not allowed to tell you where so and so spilled the paint everywhere."

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by The Mad Viking
"No, doofus, somebody else had a crap, I'm just holding it for them."

"Of course I did, you dolt, we can both smell it, can't we. Why do you insist on trying to humiliate me with a series of rhetorical questions to point out what I already know. I'm just a two-year old. Crapping our pants is one the things we sometimes do. If you don't like it, you should have kept it in your pants."

[TCO]

Beat them. Don't be a wimpy Euro type. Beat em. It makes em mean and ready to invade other countries and cheer for the death penalty.

[Potassium]

Originally posted by TCO
Beat them. Don't be a wimpy Euro type. Beat em. It makes em mean and ready to invade other countries and cheer for the death penalty.

I sincerely hope you're not serious

[TCO]

Use the leather belt on the bare bottom. That gets some humiliation mixed in with the pain.

[Potassium]

Not to mention serious emotional damage later in life.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Potassium
Not to mention serious emotional damage later in life.

Waaah. Fvcking waaah. Get over it. Time to beat your own kids.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

TCO you forgot the beat em in front of their friends part.

[Ben Kenobi]

A colleague told me his daughter spanked him

[Potassium]

Originally posted by TCO
Waaah. Fvcking waaah. Get over it. Time to beat your own kids.

Beating kids does nothing. All it does is make them afraid of doing even the simplest of things because they know you're going to hit them.

"I'm sorry I dropped the fork, daddy, please don't hit me!"

[TCO]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
TCO you forgot the beat em in front of their friends part.

Yeah...that's kind of good. Especially if the freinds are a little worried that they are going to catch it too.

I need a wife who knows how to use a wooden sppon or a shoe.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Gonna have to do a little wood working on the spoon. Drill holes you know.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Potassium
Beating kids does nothing. All it does is make them afraid of doing even the simplest of things because they know you're going to hit them.

"I'm sorry I dropped the fork, daddy, please don't hit me!"

Or it ****ing makes them learn to take their whipping like a man.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Shoes work but stay away from golf cleats gets the social workers in an urproar.