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Originally Posted by shakran
See, I can give you examples all day long. Ground them. Take their bike away. Sell their nintendo (or whatever the hell they're playing these days). Make them do very unpleasant chores (you, boy, go dig a hole big enough to plant that balled 6' pine tree). Fine him. Tons of viable punishments.
You have to tailor the punishment to fit the crime AND the child.
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In instances such as child-rearing, I think a certain level of tolerance for other people's methods is required. You object to vinegar on the tongue, but I object to subjecting a child to hard manual labour as punishment. I don't want my kid to be part of a chain-gang, and to use your argument, I don't want to teach my child that doing chores around the house is punishment for being naughty either.
The last line of yours that I've quoted, in my opinion, should be the one thing that we all take away from this debate. Every kid is different and needs to be raised in a different way. It's up to us as parents and the people who know them the best to decide what that way is.