Originally Posted by shakran

Boy, I sure do hear lines like that a lot. Well it's ok for ME to spank/whip/physically torture my kid with liquids that make his mouth burn, but no one ELSE better do it!

That's a load of crap. If it's an appropriate punishment then it's an appropriate punishment. If you feel squeamish about other authority figures using a given method to punish your kid, then perhaps that's a sign that it's not exactly the best idea for you to be doing it either.

Physical punishment in general is also a load of crap. We spend over half of the kid's childhood trying to convince the kid that physical violence is the wrong way to respond when someone upsets you, and then we haul off and hit the kid when he upsets us. Kids are smarter than many people think they are. They WILL catch on to that double standard.

Pouring burning liquids in a kid's mouth is piss poor parenting. If you think it's too hard to discipline your kids without resorting to tabasco torture then kids are not for you.