plw@drutx.UUCP (02/27/86)
The question to spank or not to spank doesn't always show if the child will grow up to be a monster or not. I come from a family of 5 kids and a step father who beat us all. (He had a problem, but that is another story.) All the kids are now grown with kids of our own. We have handled the spanking issue differently. There are the kids who have carried on spanking their own kids, and the ones who haven't taken a hand to their child at all. The ones who haven't been spanked are good kids, well liked by the family. The ones who have been spanked in different degrees are also good kids, well liked by the family. I might not always agree to my nieces and nephews spankings, but none have ever been beat. And then there are the ones that the family has a hard time even liking. These are the ones that their parents threat them with a punishment and don't carry it out. "You just wait until....", and the until never comes. To finish this up, a parent has to have some sort of punishment that will be carried through or a child will continue with their actions. ONE whack on the bottom is not a beating, in my opinion. What is wrong is not taking any time to teach the child what is wrong or right. To be too lazy to be the proper parent to discipline that child. Each parent has to decide how to discipline. I only hope most will find the way without a beating. Pat