burningmetal

That chart is ignorant and useless.

I was more than old enough at 5 years old to know when I did something wrong, and why I was getting the belt. And using a belt is not "striking". Nobody punched me in the face, or gave me lash marks with a whip. And I grew up as a well behaved kid.

"Reasoning" with a child only goes so far if there are no consequences. It's easy to just say that something is wrong, and tell them what is right. But when a child is acting out, in any way, there is a reason for it, and if they are old enough to understand reason, then they already knew by that time that what they were doing was wrong.

So just telling them "hey, you can't do that, because it's wrong, and I don't want you to grow up to be a bad person" isn't going to change anything, because you've given them no consequence to fear. Now, you can choose to punish the child in some way. That's fine. My parents used a belt for more minor offenses, and punished me and my siblings by banning us from something for a certain period of time, for the more serious offenses.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, the NFL would fine and suspend me.

OldMaid

OMG, this man , Peterson needs to STFU. Get parenting classes.

Shanking is one thing. A handswat on the butt. Abuse , which that was with Peterson, is something else.

I am not getting in the debate to spank or not.

Punishing makes an impact . Losing fav things and privileges, oh boy.

QBREES9

Dumbass.