the spanking debate isnât all that complicated. youâre either ok with hitting small kids who are completely defenseless and literally at your mercy, or youâre not. supporting the first option makes you a bad and dangerous person, and unfit to be a parent, and im sorry to say but thereâs no way around this, no excuses or loopholes. it is what it is
Iâve told this story before and my clam chowder is getting cold but fuck it.
A couple years ago while I was working for a care center during my ece training - we had a big thing about spankings. We went around and asked children who were spanked how they felt about it and what it told them or how it made them feel.
Then when the parents were over, we anonymously read everything that was said by the children on how they view spankings and unanimously it was found that the children never saw it as a growing experience.
It was âpainfulâ âreally scaryâ âI thought mommy hated me nowâ and we often found it never actually TAUGHT the kids what they did wrong. in fact it seemed to teach them that at any moment your mommy or daddy would just haul up and smack you until you cried and said it was for your own good.
Needless to say Iâm pretty sure we changed a lot of parents opinions on spanking and SHOCK OF SHOCKS actually TALKING to their children worked far better disiplinary
I even included my own story, pretending I was telling an outside story âwell, I happened to know one person whoâs mother only stopped spanking them cause they got tall and big real fast so they could fight back. so thereâs a lot of intimidation and fear to your children.â and just - Iâll never forget the dawning look of realization on their faces
The most common argument I hear is, âLook, my parents spanked me and I turned out fine.â Stolen from elsewhere on the internet but now my defult response:Â âNo you didnâtâyou think it is okay to hit little kids.â
