Put it this way Spanner.
When people comment and say how are your kids so polite and well behaved my natural response is how are yours not.
You set the lines and keep to the lines, you don't leave off and then shift off to a whole new set of lines.
The wonderful thing with kids nowadays is because they have so much and can do so much compared to the poor old darkages when we old uns got raised in a shoebox on the side of the road working 26 hours a day and eating cold gravel if we were lucky to be fed and then were grateful for it...the amount of stuff they have and the amount of things they do just gives such an increased scope of how to keep kids raised in line.

You made the same basic error as august makes, but from the opposite direction.
Though yours is one of the countries where it is banned both in school and at home, unlike Augusts country where it is banned in neither.

This is your opinion from the looks of it. Don't go looking for hard numbers that a spanking is detrimental to the child. There are none. Just opinion, professional and popular. Your use of the word brat would indicate you have no children. I often find it hard to form a educated opinion when not faced with the actual issue at hand.


Yes, bravo. Popular opinion or just your opinion? I would also venture a guess both of you envision a beat down into submission spanking. This would not be the case in most instances. At least from my experience. A swat to bottom. Swat to the top of the hand as a child reaches over a hot stove. Time out chair. Take away something for a while the child likes. Sure, there are few sadistic bastards out there that get some sort of satisfaction whooping the hell out their kid. There a plenty more that are not swatting out of malice but more than likely a last resort. We all have our opinions on spanking. In practice, I have not swatted my kids. I can not say the same for my wife who once swatted our eldest.

If you two do have children, how are handling your unruly child?

You really are having comprehension problems lately.:rotfl2:

I don't have unruly children which is why people ask how they are so well behaved:doh:
Its called teaching them limits and respect.

Your really are coming up with poor answers lately. :rotfl2:

So you have children? These kids stand to with hands in pockets and do not speak until spoken to? Your opinion/popular opinion on spanking. Nothing more.

AVG if you believe anything that he says I would like to interest you in this bridge I am selling... :yep:

You are consistantly going off on one despite all the needed words already being put down which clearly show that you are going off in the wrong direction entirely.

No of course not I get my imaginary parenting skills from a leaflet I once found in a discarded cornflakes packet on the moon.

What strange children, did you pick them up out of some stuffy victorian novel?
Funny really as the youngests teacher comments on how she always questions everything and won't stop with the questions until the answers makes sense, like he says the priest finds it very very infuriating when he comes to their class.
Like he says, kids like mine make teaching a pleasure.:smug:

august, you and your special friend Skybird are the two that are liars and it is easily demonstrated to be the case.
So why don't you go back to your world of ignorance you silly troll.

I will give you Tribesman standard answer when he has none:

:rotfl2:

That would have been a better answer as even though his comments have been full of lies and distortions throughout this topic you yourself have said that he cannot really have any idea what he is talking about:up:
Which means, Augusts efforts at trying to make sense.....:har::har::har::har::har::har::har:

maybe his parents failed to teach him as a little child that he shouldn't lie

In the days of my parents even teachers could hit the kid fingers with a rule if they did something very wrong, and then when the kid return to the house he would take another beating from his father. But those were better times for the family i think.

So you want to go back to the days when parents beat their kids and their kids later went out and murdered people like at the University of Texas?

Warhawk one question on something you earlier wrote.
Hot stoves. At what age or size did you teach your kids about the dangers of hot stoves? how about kettles, open fires, matches, candles?
Did you ever introduce them to any burns victims(or victims of any other hazard people have to live with daily).
Just wondering as you mention slapping the hand away from a hot stove, don't you think they should be taught about what not to do with a hot stove before they get to the stage where they can even reach it?

[QUOTE=Tribesman;1977861
Warhawk one question on something you earlier wrote.
Hot stoves. At what age or size did you teach your kids about the dangers of hot stoves? how about kettles, open fires, matches, candles?
Did you ever introduce them to any burns victims(or victims of any other hazard people have to live with daily).
Just wondering as you mention slapping the hand away from a hot stove, don't you think they should be taught about what not to do with a hot stove before they get to the stage where they can even reach it?[/QUOTE]

My kids grandmother suffered 3rd degree burns as a child reaching over the stove. She was wearing her nightgown while making breakfast for her mother. Her entire right breast was taken. Her right arm was melted scared flesh as well as her entire neck. My kids understood after questions were answered. Both of my kids grandparents died of cancer at 50 and 54. These deaths were by cigarettes. Not much discussion was required on cigarettes. You may stop cherry picking. A few posts back I stated I never swatted my kids. My wife did once.

When I need a lesson on parenting I'll ask you. Until then dispense with attempting to teach a lesson. Thanks.

?? no just saying.

He's trying to make the claim that if you spank your children it will turn them into mass murderers, or IRA members, one or the other.

Is there free guiness if I join?