My boyfriend doesn't see anything wrong with spanking. I was spanked and I don't really remember anything positive coming from that. It is more common practice nowadays to discipline in less violent ways. I worked in a preschool and of course we were not allowed to spank. There are less violent and more effective ways to discipline children. For the infants, we simply removed them from what they were doing, got down on their level and sternly, but not harshly, told them that that was not ok and why. It was pretty much the same thing with the older children. They get a single warning, and then if they did not do as they were told then they were put on time out for as many minutes as their age (for example a 4 year old would be on time out for 4 minutes). If you are aware of the show Supernanny, she uses this technique in all of her episodes and its very very effective. I would look up "Supernanny discipline techniques" on youtube because there is a lot more to it than what I had briefly typed up.
Spanking is really ineffective. But there are other ways. Good luck to you, hope this helps. |
