Child Behavior Discipline

[Lilium]

PROBLEM: Child Behavior Discipline
SIDE: For

Okay. Say I have a kid, and we were at the store, and he wanted something, and I said no, and he threw a temper tantrum, and I tried to get him to shut up, and he kept not listening to me, wouldn't common sense dictate that this is time for punishment?

Or a restaurant. Is it just me, or are the rest of you really sick of going to a restaurant and having this little kid screaming his head off? And then the parents just ignore it. If my (hypothetical) kid started screaming in a restaurant and wouldn't calm down, I know for a fact I would take them outside and scold them, and if he still didn't mind me, I'd spank him.

So. Since people are SO SENSITIVE these days, they'd be all, "Oh no, *gasp* you spank your children when they misbehave? That's child abuse!!" What the hell? I was spanked when I was little and was a really bad girl, with a wooden spoon, too, and I made sure I never misbehaved like that again. How in the world is it child abuse to make a little red mark on their behind when they act up? It's not like I'm beating the total shit out of the kid, I'm just making it sting, so they won't do it again, or they'll get it again. And I mean little kids. When they're older, I'd ground them.

It's a sad word when you can't discipline your children without scornful people shaking their heads.


topic open for opinions and further arguments
(make sure to state the problem and what side you're on, 'for' if for disciplining your child like this, 'against' if against it.)

[ultraviolet]

for:
I concur, I was spanked when I was a kid. spanked. xDD you americans have weird words. I got smacked if I played up, and that set me straight, I usually didn't do it again either.
haha xD I actually wrote 'smack spoon' in texta on ours when I was four. xDDDDD made mum laugh.
I think during public though it's best not to, pretty much cos of all the muttering idiots with disapproving looks.

[Lilium]

Yes, but you do need a way to shut the brat up without leaving with an unpaid bill.

[ultraviolet]

you have a younger sibling, don't you. ;D

[Lilium]

Yup, 10-year-old brother.

[ultraviolet]

you're lucky. I have a three-year-old sister. -.-;

[::ANDY::]

FOR

definatly for. If you're kid's being a pain, you do something about it. You don't just sit there and ignore it. I hate it when the parent's go, "I can't hear you, I can't hear you!" becuase then the kid just gets louder.

[Kiweh]

For:
Yeah I was spanked, smacked a lot *shifty eyes* but yeah now I am the good kid ^^

My brother is like that, well he asks and if you don't give him a quarter or whatever than he'll crawl around on the floor and look for one, it doesn't seem that embarrassing but it is. I don't want to be related to a boy who lays on the nasty ground of the grocery store, looking under the machines for a quarter like a poor kid *sighs* but he doesn't listen to me and my mom doesn't care what he does as long as he isn't hurting anybody.....