Fi.J. wrote:I don't think parents should beat their children..it wouldn't be a good example n there are better way to teach children how to behave..
I agree with you Faby, parents shouldn't beat their children. First of all it's wrong to hit anyone, and I think it's really disgusting when adults hit children who are so much smaller than them and have no way of defending themselves. Beating your kids is just a sign of feeling impotent and helpless, it's a sign that you aren't capable of communicating with your kids and explain to them why it's wrong to do what they just did. Violence has never been an ideal method of conflict solving.
when you beat your kids you teach them that this is normal behaviour when somebody does something you don't like. And yeah, I do think that beatings traumatise children who grow up to fear their parents instead of learning to respect them.
that being said there's a very large difference between beating your children and slap them in their behind once and then never again if they've done something really bad - in the latter case I doubt anyone would be traumatised by it, but they'll remember it for the rest of their lives because it was an extraordinary event, they'll learn from it, and they'll probably never repeat the action that led to the spanking.