Spanking children... acceptable or not as discipline?

[Walk away]

255. Just like hitting a dog, spanking children is for people too stupid...

or lazy to learn and practice love and discipline through proven behavioral science and positive reinforcement. They choose the ineffective approach of pain or humiliation because it makes them feel in control with very little effort.

They assure themselves that it worked because sometime they manage to create avoidance of the behavior through fear. They don't get that as soon as the child knows they won't be detected that they feel free to continue the bad behavior.

It's simple science. Negative reinforcement has to be constant and continuous. Positive reinforcement should be intermittent and not necessarily continuous.

That means if you want to permanently change a behavior by spanking you have to be there to punish every time the child acts badly, forever. If you want to take the time to reinforce positive behavior, you can do so every so often and achieve a permanent change without permanently damaging you future relationship.

Sadly, hitters will never know how much better their relationship with their family and pets might have been had they never raised their hand. And yes, "taps" count and negative reinforcement too. Wake up and take a college class in behavioral psychology or read a book on child raising by an accepted authority.