cushner@ttidcb.UUCP (Jeffrey Cushner) (01/21/85)
I have a son, currently 3 1/2 months old. Although we have *no* reason
to discipline him and wouldn't even think of it now, I still am looking
to the future and developing a philosophy now, so that when the time
comes, I will be, at least, somewhat ready to deal with it.
I agree with the general philosophy of the consensus to only spank
sparingly and for the proper reason (ie. injury-causing ).
Also I believe in confinement in the corner for a brief period as
opposed to going to the bedroom.
My question, however, is this:
At what age SHOULD you start this practice. (ie. When will it not
emotionally harm him, (or) when will it do him good)?
Jeff Cushner
@ Citicorp-TTI
3100 Ocean Pk. Blvd.
Santa Monica CA 90405rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.) (01/28/85)
I also have a 3 1/2 month old son, so I am not at that point yet, but it strikes me that the logical time to start disciplining a child is when you are convinced that: 1. the child knows that the action in question is wrong. 2. the child can understand that the disciplinary action is being taken as a result of his own bad action. I imagine that this is a wide ranging criterion, which will point to different ages for different children and different types of misbehaviour. Rick Sellens UUCP: watmath!watdcsu!rsellens CSNET: rsellens%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: rsellens%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa