by Sherry Bentley-Short

Created on: May 03, 2008

We are at odds in our household about this subject. I believe that you should spank children in a generation that I was raised in you knew that if you didn't fly right there was trouble to be had an god help you if you didn't bring back the right switch. As if it was not bad enough that we would have to pick out our beating stick then we would get beat even worse if it was not the right form of torture. The fact remains though that children get spankings for wrong doing end up being better kids.

i recently had somebody tell me that to spank a child is to instill fear in them and then asked me if I really wanted to my children to fear me. This answer is an unequivocal yes. Fear and respect and that is what a good spanking will do. It wasn't until we started getting all touchy feely in our society that we started seeing real problems.

We do away with corporal punishment in the schools and now we have random shootings in schools and this is not just a freak occurrence anymore this is real life every day insanity. It started about the time people stopped punishing their children. The inventor of the time out should be hanged. In my opinion if the infraction was bad enough to make you have to send them to a time out it was bad enough for a swat on the backside. We were taught that there were some basic rules that you followed and the basis of all of those rules were respect. There is none anymore because people are not punishing their children.

People are not punishing their children in my opinion out of fear more than anything else. You spank your child, your child goes to school and says I got a spanking and you have child services at your door quicker than you can say get me a switch. In the mean time children are out there that really need child services and they get lost in the system because everybody is busy trying to monitor if a spanking was warranted. Kids are out of control today and it's because they are not getting the proper punishment that they need and deserve so yes it is my opinion that corporal punishment is a good thing.

I assure you my children know what is right from wrong and they know that doing the wrong thing brings the hammer down. Not literally, and isn't it bad that you have to say that in today's society. If I hadn't there would be 10,000 policemen at my door looking for said hammer.

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