Reply #62: Tsk, tsk, tsk

[monkeyboy]

First of all, I said spank, not beat. There is a world of difference.

Secondly, I never scared my kids at every turn. You assume way too much. But this is part of the problem: too many people assume that there are only 2 extremes: beating the kid into submission, or letting him go hog wild. I posit that it is precisley these 2 extremes that make for bad children who become bad adults. It's all about balance, but that requires effort, imagination, judgement, etc., and that's just way too much work for people, so, laziness shows itself in the form of either screaming beaters, or glassy-eyed ignorers.