Reply #144: Oh wow...

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So a parent "doesn't spank in anger" but allegedly takes the time to explain why the spanking is being administered.


Really...why even bother explaining? If talking to the kid about bad behavior doesn't get through to him, then why would an explanation about why he's being hit get through either?


Why not just take away a beloved item or privilege instead, and explain why?

It would take as much time to do that as sitting down and going through the whole spanking-for-your-own-good spiel and probably have longer lasting impact.


Anyway, I call bullshit on the "I never spanked in anger" crap so many parents spew out. It sounds creepily like someone killing another in cold blood rather than in the heat of the moment.

I got hit a lot as a child, and I didn't like it, but at least when one parent or another hit me, it was an emotional reaction and they didn't give me a lot of bullshit about how rational they really were about the whole thing.

Kids understand anger. I don't know if they understand someone calmly whacking away on their asses with creepy detachment.

PS...also, I find it disturbing to the highest degree that you are trying to make yourself look like a victim of a bunch of Devil Spawn children and that there was nothing left in the world to do but hit them. Kids aren't born bad.