Pregnancy
Discussion Title: Spanking
Created by: hbm2007
Created on: Thu, 04/19/2007 - 12:09pm.
Created by: hbm2007
Created on: Thu, 04/19/2007 - 12:09pm.
I'm getting ready to have my first child, and I'm worried about me and my husband's different views of discipline. He believes spanking can be effective if used every once in a while. I'm completely against it! What should we do? Does anyone else discipline their kids with methods other than spanking?
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Replied: 5/11/2009 1:58pm.
Great post!
Good for you! It is difficult to put into practice but has great rewards. My children and the children I nanny do the same thing as your youngest, which is wonderful and shows the hard work is so worth the effort!!
Replied: 5/15/2009 9:24pm.
is your hasband happy that his having a 1 child
Thankyou,Cindy3
Replied: 5/19/2009 5:52am.
There is a really quick read that a lot of professionals use in helping people understand why hitting isn't the way to go, and why its worth learning how to discipline instead. Maybe he could look over it-
Plain Talk About Spanking
by Jordan Riak
Replied: 6/26/2009 5:34pm.
In this era of parenting, people generally try not to spank. It is just not something the culture agrees upon as being acceptable. Why do it? I cannot believe that spanking is the one and only way to discipline a child. I have only occasionally spanked mine, out of frustration. Their dad doesn't spank them. They somehow are quite well behaved. If they do something wrong, I just look at them til they realize their mistake. We all make mistakes, especially kids. They make them ALL the time, and sometimes they even do it on purpose! Funny people.:)
best of luck,
Amy
Replied: 6/26/2009 9:01pm.
He is only 16 months old! A baby! Put him in a crib(playpen?) or a safe place if he is playing with things that he shouldn't. Or better simply take them away. This is not to punish but to keep him safe. The thing he will learn, however, intrinsically, is that his safety is important to you, and he is worthy of being cared for and protected until he is able to do so for himself(and beyond).
I'm not surprised time outs don't work, or spankings. Forget them.
Also, what is he playing with? I don't recall that there were too many things lying around my house that were potentially dangerous to a one-year old that I hadn't already put on a high shelf or a closet.