With all due respect, Snowy, the kids are not yours, you are doing your job. Should you be a proponent of CP, you'd be arrested and fired if you carried it out.
To those who don't have kids, don't work with kids and their only "experience" is once being a kid, the task of raising and disciplining children is different than what your parents went through because we are not our parents. We might "live what we know" but we still do things based on our own experiences and circumstances. Kids of parents who spanked might do more or less with their own. Those who say "my parents spanked me so I will never do it" or vice versa may very well react totally differently when they themselves become parents. It is simply not something you can define with certainty until you are in it.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
So firm is this belief, that when I see a parent spank a child in public, I feel compelled to peacefully intervene.
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I have encountered people like you and it aggravates the piss out of me. I used wrist "leashes" with my twins when they were toddlers so I didn't have to constantly chase them, hold their hands in that annoyingly uncomfortable "arms up in the air" and allow them a modicum of freedom and I was constantly berated with nasty comments of the "they're not dogs" variety. My usual response was "I know. I can replace my dog".
My kids-especially my son-were spanked. (He was later diagnosed with both ADD and a behavorial allergy to Sodium Nitrate). Until his diagnoses, he was incorrigible. Time-outs prompted tempter tantrums.
You do what works. Beatings? No. That's sick. But spanking, a smack on the hand with a firm "NO!" usually work. How dare you cop your holier-than-thou attitude on strangers. Unless you see actual harm, STFU and keep walking.