Georgia school reinstating paddling to punish students

[Slander and/or Libel]

This is something that should probably be done by parents.  How else are you supposed to get a small child to behave?

Reason, respect, and non-physical consequences.

You obviously do not have much experience with young children if you think reasoning with them works.

I’ve got 3 young children, ages 4, 3, and 1. I don’t beat them.

[Yellowhammer]

This is something that should probably be done by parents.  How else are you supposed to get a small child to behave?

Reason, respect, and non-physical consequences.

You obviously do not have much experience with young children if you think reasoning with them works.

I’ve got 3 young children, ages 4, 3, and 1. I don’t beat them.

Good, you shouldn't beat them.
Spanking is not beating.

[Slander and/or Libel]

This is something that should probably be done by parents.  How else are you supposed to get a small child to behave?

Reason, respect, and non-physical consequences.

You obviously do not have much experience with young children if you think reasoning with them works.

I’ve got 3 young children, ages 4, 3, and 1. I don’t beat them.

Good, you shouldn't beat them.
Spanking is not beating.

Giving a cute name to beating children in a specific place on their bodies doesn’t make it not beating.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

This thread is really hard to read now.

But Scarlet is right.  Spanking doesn't make children compliant but it does make them more aggressive, according to the body of research that's been conducted on the subject.  It is a barbaric, ineffective, potentially dangerous form of punishment and not enough parents are hearing the message.  I was spanked once as a child and it didn't work.  Fortunately my parents figured that out pretty quickly and I had a mostly peaceful relationship with them from then on.  When I acted up, the punishments were always non-physical.

There is no good reason to hit a child just as there is no good reason to hit an adult under most circumstances (yes - even alt-right goons!).  Let's stop relying on physical violence to solve our problems.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

This is something that should probably be done by parents.  How else are you supposed to get a small child to behave?

Reason, respect, and non-physical consequences.

You obviously do not have much experience with young children if you think reasoning with them works.

I have one. She is capable of language, empathy, and independent thought. As such, I treat her as a capable, rational person, and she is all the better for it. She rarely acts out, or does impulsively dumb things. My role as a father is to foster this, and turn her into a confident, witty, natural leader as she grows. Hitting her when she does something I don't like is not effective means to an end. You'd be amazed at how mature children can be when you treat them as equals.

[pbrower2a]

This is something that should probably be done by parents.  How else are you supposed to get a small child to behave?

Reason, respect, and non-physical consequences.

Does that actually work for young children?

Corporal punishment teaches a lesson that Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Satan Hussein all got -- that might makes right.

Reason and respect are better taught by example than by preaching, and canniot be taught by the display of their opposites.

[Reaganfan]

Excellent. These kids need discipline.

[Slander and/or Libel]

Excellent. These kids need discipline.

“These kids”