Comment posted Positives? by Brian.
Hitting your child at all is considered child abuse. There is really no reason to hit your kid, it’s not going to solve any problems. It will just re-enforce the thought that receiving physical pain is an adequate punishment to doing something wrong. They’ll grow up thinking or expecting to be punished physically every time they make a mistake, or perhaps physically harm themselves for making bad decisions/choices/mistakes. This will give them tremendous social and generalized anxiety, for they will live in constant fear of being punished and they’ll be one of the most pussified members of society that they’ll probably resort to using drugs in secret to mask their anxiety symptoms.
You probably don’t know a lot of people that were spanked as children and that now use drugs.
If you are so versed in psychology, you would be aware of the coorelation between spanking and a child’s development:
“While spanking may relieve a parent’s frustration and stop misbehavior briefly, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (1995), researchers suggest that spanking may be the least effective discipline method. To test this hypothesis, researchers surveyed parents, with the assumption that if spanking worked, children who were spanked would learn to behave better over time so that they would need punishing less frequently (Leach, 1996). However, the results showed that families who start spanking before their children are a year old are just as likely to spank their 4-year-old children as often as families who do not start spanking until later. Thus, children appear not to be learning the lessons parents are trying to teach by spanking.
Spanking may be ineffective because it does not teach an alternative behavior (American Academy of Pediatrics, 1995). In fact, children usually feel resentful, humiliated, and helpless after being spanked (Samalin & Whitney, 1995). The primary lesson they learn appears to be that they should try harder not to get caught.
Spanking also sends the wrong message to children (Samalin & Whitney, 1995). Spanking communicates that hitting is an acceptable way to solve problems, and that it is all right for a big person to strike a smaller one. In addition, when children are spanked, they may know that they have done something wrong, but in many cases, they are too young to understand the lesson. It is a very difficult message for any adult or child to understand: “I hurt you because I don’t want you hurt.”
Finally, when spanking is the primary discipline method used, it may have some potentially harmful long-term effects such as increasing the chances of misbehavior, aggression, violent or criminal behavior; impaired learning; and depression (Straus, 1995).”
Source: http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content4/spanking.morph.html
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