about the detrimental effects of hitting children and alternative positive parenting methods and a committed investment in family services to support parents. Conference therefore calls for legislation to ban all physical punishment of children, a public education campaign on positive methods of discipline and an increase in universally available services to support parents with positive parenting. Debated amendment Following on from section “Conference believes that;” Delete: ” …
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Thank you SO MUCH to my parents for paddling me when I was being disrespectful and doing something wrong or/and inappropriate!!!
I’m now a respectful person
I am a teacher in South Africa and I have seen how children have changed, for the worse, since corporal punishment has been banned from schools since 1994. Children are more abusive to their teachers, swear at them openly and disrupt the whole learning process for the children who want to learn. Many other teachers and I find it disturbing when we tell parents about the conduct of their children and they defiantly refuse to believe what we are saying.
Same here mismatched. As a child I was angry with them for spanking me but then again any form of punishment would have made me angry with them not only that but I was a bit on the devious side and no amount of timeouts, talks, or other verbal discipline worked. I learned to associate “hitting classmate” with “spanking” and that ended that. Once I entered adolescence I understood why they did what they did and I’m glad they acted like parents rather than “friends” like I see so many today.
People that try to justify corporal punishment by the Bible simply dont know what they are doing. The old testiment was for it but christ delivered us from it in the new testiment.
When do “smacks” lead to “Belts” and where do draw that imaginary line in the sand between “hurt” and “injuring” a child!
Well I’m 16 years old and my parents spanked me when i was a child and i didn’t feel like it was abuse. It was my consequence. It didn’t lead me to a drug-addicted, violent life. i atcually think that it’s made me more self disciplined and i have respect for them. it isn’t abuse when applied in the correct manner or when controlled. but smacking a child for something stupid is just wrong. i fully understand my parents intentions and i am glad they did it.
If you smack an adult you get hauled up in front of a judge. yet you think it should be legal to smack a child?.I do not understand the logic. at least an adult can smack back a small child is helpless against the smacks of adults.where do you draw the line? I have kids I have no recourse to ever smack them. Smacking only serves to make an adult feel more in control gives them power. well there are better ways to have good behavior from your child and keep their love and respect at the same time
You want to assault people and you say you turned out fine
Criminalising parents for smacking a child will only drive the problem underground where you cant control it, and such a law would be hard to enforce and difficult to uphold.
The answer to that of course is corporal punishment of adults. Robert Heinlein had it right. A short, sharp shock can be very beneficial when nothing else works.
could not agree with you me, its a very hypocritical concept
what about all the adults that mug old ladies suppose we’ll spank them as well
yea well i never did, what do you have to say about that
adults get away with a lot of outrageous things also, but who disciplines them? If jails and the army and other parts of society do not use corporal punishment why should schools and parents. corporal punishment is used to “modify and correct” the behavior of children, but what’s used to correct the behavior of the parents
Corporal Punishment is Barbarian Savagery.
Anybody who even agrees with it should be tied to a wall and have stones thrown at them.
you want savage punishments, you get them!
There is something very strange about your logic to me: How on earth is causing someone pain loving? If you loved them so much, why not use something that doesn’t involve harm if you can, but is just as effective?
I’m not saying you’re insatisfactory, but how can you objectively look at yourself and know you would not be a happier person?
I would advise you to reconsder. It’s not necessary and I know as someone who can testify to knowing some great, intelligent, gentle kids raised on the ideas of common (not pop) positive discipline. That’s all I’ll say.
To me, whether it’s a so called “gentle smack” or “abusively hitting with a large object” doesn’t make any difference. They are two things that relate in their approach, and that is to harm and to cause fear for obedience.
This man speaks truth. In fact I think there was one guy called norm lee who went out of his way to find a prison where he discovered one person there had not been punished corporally!
Spanking is only used as a last means/resort if all else fails. Some children need it more than others, but everyone grows up and spankings stop at certain ages. This is just overanalyzed and blown out of proportion. Haven’t ya’ll got something better to work on like child protection reform, the manipulative and deceitful ways of Child protection agencies?
some of you truly are masters when posting utter crap is concerned. ‘violence is the answer’ was a classic highlight, as well as’kids need their asses beat once in a while’ hm. right, very true yeah…no. sorry but it isnt true and it isnt right. the furthest any parent should go should be a quick smack on the hand,the backside on the other is sexual harrassment. unless your married/or not and do that stuff in the bedroom, its not appropriate. pls do get it right.
‘ Ive turned out fine’, ‘ never did me any harm’ oh and whats another one um..? oh yes,’Ive turned out okay’ – BULLSHIT. Pure and utter bullshit. When you make a statement such as that you are only strongly indicating that you havent turned out fine,that it did do you harm and well you kind of havent turned out as well as you hoped. God those words from some of you really frustrate me, and yeah, I AM completely %100 agaisnt corporal punishment. All i can say is that its wrong,simple.
Spare the rod…
you know what, let me make this very brief and simple. okay: if adults arent allowed to hit adults, if children arent allowed to hit adults and if children arent allowed to hit children then how come children are the ones who are allowed to get hit?where is the justice in that when children are human beings just like adults? smacking is just wrong.hitting, belting,whipping,flogging,beating ect—its all wrong
wtf r u takin about bitches