Well, it depends on age. I would understand spanking ages 2-6, but after that no more. I mean, who want's to spank a 14 yr old girl/boy?

yeah i think its very wrong! we have vocal chords we can speak to our children..our arms are for hugging not for hitting!

no spanking!i agree with the other poster it might end up teaching your kid that it is o.k. to hit and its not

anyway see ya good luck

I work with children, eight hours a day. Being a preschool teacher we don't use punishment, time-outs, any of the such... we use this method of redirection, by taking the child out of the situation and giving them something else to do...

and it doesn't work.

My own children, will be spanked. I think there are certain situations the merit a spanking. Especially when children realize all they are getting is a "talking to" and thats all they are going to get, there is no reason to worry about their actions.

Spanking teaches cause and effect.

Spanking does not teach children that it is ok to hit. Spanking is not done rashly and without thinking. I think it is wrong to slap your child when you are angry, but to send them to their room, calm down, and then come in and give them a spank. You have authority over your child and when they do something wrong than they need to be punished. They understand that as a child they do not have the authority to punish someone by hitting them, just like they no that they can not "have a chat" with other children about how their behaviour is wrong etc... and to discipline them that way. When I was younger and my mom just gave me "the talk" I was like, "phew no spanking this time"- it was only spankings that really taught me something. I don't think that your children will become bitter or hateful against you if you spank them as long as you do not lash out at them in anger (and you can do that with words as well)- remember the saying "sticks and stone will break my bones but word will never hurt me" and how wrong this statement is... sometimes words hurt more than physical things!!!

i personally thinking spanking is wrong, i've never had to revert to spanking for discplining my children. I used to be a teacher for autistic children and now i'm a therapist physical and speacch and i own my own center for autistic children, i had to take a few physcolgy classes so me and my children express ourselves with words or feelings or with excersises that calm or bodies down. i am with children everyday at home and school. i was tought and i belive that touch in a harmful way can cause touch issues forever, i had to intern as a therapist at a school for a few months i had a case with a child that she would hate to be touched becasue when she was young her mother would spank her for going near her china cabinet...
find other methods of discpline this really disturbs me to see stuff like this