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Please don’t spank your kids

• Nokinside 9y ago
  "I was spanked and I turned all right" is not a good argument, it's just defensive first reaction. We all are very emotionally very defensive when the weird things in our culture or era are questioned. As a someone who grew up in 80's and 90's, it turns out that there are so many things that were normal that are now abandoned for a good reason. In Finland where I live, physical punishment of children was forbidden in 1984. In general things are better now and the new generations are psychologically and socially more adjusted.
  • grawprog 9y ago
    I don't know I think there's a big difference between being hit with a paddle or spanked for everything like described in the article vs the few times it happened to me. It was only for the few really shitty things I did as a kid that I knew better than to do and only after repeatedly being told it was going to happen if I continued. Me being the little shit I was would usually continue. It was never hard enough to hurt me and I feel actually taught me there is a point I can take things too far and the consequences will be bad. I was never afraid of getting spanked growing up but I knew if I ever did anything really bad it could happen. Honestly I kind of hated being grounded more than being spanked.
• xkcd-sucks 9y ago
  Anecdotally, spanked children grow up to be kinkier adults