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Let me guess, you’re a liberal in your late teen/early 20s, and no kids of your own? here’s a little news flash, people have been raising kids for centuries, and they didn’t need little “studies” to tell them how to do it. funny how people who have never reason a goldfish can now tell us the best way to raise our kids. How about you all STFU and let us raise our kids the be strong, smart, adults that know right and wrong. When you’re old enough to have kids, you can raise them to be the pussies you want them to be.
No I'm a 35 year old adult that was raised before the age of pc, when damn near everyone hit their kids. Not hitting your kids =/= letting them do whatever they want and run the household.
Discipline is very important when raising a child, but violence is a terrible form of discipline.
When done properly is definitely effective.
Disagree completely. Discipline handled properly isn't teaching anything close to violent impulses to anyone.
Well the stats are out there. And the problem is once you allow violence into the equation, there's a really high chance you WILL hit them out of anger at some point. Because people are not perfect and have emotions. I was spanked occasionally as a kid and I wouldn't say that was harmful, but I was hit out of ang]er many times too. I've seen it happen with friends and faily members kids, random kids in public, etc.
Kids are frustrating and annoying a lot of the time, opening the door to hitting them as a form of discipline is very dangerous unless you have complete emotional control.
@Mike90 , don't do it. Don't respond. You've seen this thread done multiple times in the past and you know how it plays out. Don't get sucked in.
This thread is just going to end up 4-5 pages of arguing and no one even coming close to relenting their position
You're right I don't know why I bother. When someone counters study data with "I don't believe in any of that science stuff" the rational conversation is over. It's like talking to a flat earther.
Fuck science and widespread results, right?
Some dude who probably has a host of issues saying "I turned out alright" is definitely more informative than multiple comprehensive studies on the subject.
You right.
Seriously everyone takes "I am not currently incarcerated or killing hookers" as "alright". Just because you survived abuse and aren't literally insane doesn't mean it didn't have any negative effect on you.
People point to tradition but we've done a lot of stupid things in the past because we just didn't know any better. Appeal to tradition is one of the dumbest logical fallacies there is.
~100 years ago we had children working in sweatshops, indentured servitude, no rights or equal pay for workers, people marrying children, etc.[/QUOTE]