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Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

I agree with you while spanking is okay using a belt is too much with your hand you can tell to an extent how much pain you are inflicting with a belt that is extreme and you can't possibly tell how hard you are doing it.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I totally agree, one spank will not hurt them.. it will teach them discipline and for them to know better next time after being warned several times.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

Its still the same thing your still spanking them and it does hurts.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

It won't help what so ever. All the parents are going to do is put fear into their kids. Kids should never be scared of their parents.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I disagree. if the parents decides to spank a child, the child will fear to do wrong not fear their parent.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree with you. Children will be scared of acting the wrong way and they will learn from it.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

But, sometimes they will think it wrong, and there going to be afraid of their parents
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Depends how it's done. Unfortunately most parents aren't child psychologists and do not separate their anger from the act of punishment, and so it is the parent and not the action which is feared.That said, is there a way to instead of using fear as incentive, to use something positive? Fear seems the lazy solution, but I don't have kids.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

I understand what you are saying but, i disagree with you because, Yes children are learning a lesson and fear to do wrong but it's also creating insecurity on them for making good decisions and it effects the relationship between the parent and child.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I completely agree, if you beat your child extensively, it creates fear. However, one spank will not hurt. I can attest to this.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I disagree, if the parent can make sure the child learns something by spanking them, then it shouldn't be considered a bad thing.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I think that children should get spanked once in a while. I got spanked when I was little but I could definitely say that I did learn lessons. Don't spank your kids though with whatever you find, you don't want to kill them !!
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

because depending on the punishment you give a child it doesn't always work, some kids need need that. because just sitting them in punishment its a possibility they will do it again.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes, because 1 getting hit helps you be stronger and grow up and 2 it makes you listen , it's not ABUSE it's getting spanked.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Spanking a child is not as bad as everyone makes it seem and actually helps kids be more discipline and have respect.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

But once your child get in their head that you spank them for things they do wrong, when you do something wrong they will feel to do the same thing to you...
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

After a spanking I made sure I never did it again to avoid being punished because the second time is always worst because you were told not to already.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

yea, because even though there are many other different ways to discipline kids, sometimes it won't work so they need a little spank, just to make them learn they were wrong. don't always be spanking them for no reason, that's bad
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes, but it also depends on the situation and how old the child is if he is a young toddler it should never be the option, they are still learning. If older they eventually know better and are just acting up
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree because they must understand they where wrong. For their actions, they will receive consequences, and from that they will learn to not do it again.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I think spanking should be an option. Although I believe it should be an option, I believe it should be a last option.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree with you because I believe it should be optional but the last option.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I believe some parents should spank their kids but only when nessasary because sometimes thats the only way some kids will learn the correct way and listen.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes, parents should use spanking as an option to discipline their children, but it should be the last option.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

children should be spanked to a certain extent. not necesarrily beat but until theyre able to understand right from wrong.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes, because they need to learn in a way that they remember that if they do something bad. They will get hit.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes, because if the child doesn't learn by any other methods they will learn getting soanked.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Parents should use spanking as an option to discipline only when it's needed. If the child doesn't follow the correct behavior that they should follow after several times being warned, then that is when the child deserves a spanking.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

i agree because parent's shouldn't be able to take advantage spanking a child for no reason
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I have been spanked once in a while for worse deeds. I think it did more good than harm to be honest. It's like touching fire to be honest, but a lot of it depends on parents and kids. It may do its job it may not, but abuse is never good.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Spanking is good thing because it helps the child to learn right from wrong. That does not mean, however, that spanking is the only way to discipline. It should not be something that occurs often, but rather something that seldom happens. It needs to be an event that the child remembers the next time that they're thinking about doing whatever it was that they did wrong.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

yes, one spank is fine as long as the parents don't do it repeatedly
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

yes because if they fear getting hit than they wont do it again
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes I believe you should spank a child only when they know they are wrong. The child will understand more if he is scared to do the same mistake. Actions speak louder than words.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

this is a very powerful statement .... i believe this because the child will now Know from right and wrong
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I think you should hit you kids because if they did something really bad like crash your car or steal you need to hit them so they know that they should not be doing that.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

There's times that spanking doesn't help when they do things like that. When they're older, they know better than that. They'll be careful.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

If your kids are stealing then I think that is more so on how they were raised. Thus putting the parents to be partially blamed. And if they are crashing cars and stealing, then I assume you are talking about older children in their early or mid teens. In which case, they already know right from wrong. Hitting them will not solve anything, it will only make things worse. And I highly doubt a kid would purposely wreck your car. If your car was crashed its more than likely an accident, and as for stealing, there are other way to solve the problem. Hitting is not one of those way. Especially the older a child is, the more they will retaliate. Thus making 'spanking' have quite the opposite affect from that of which is was meant to have.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

Kids wouldn't be driving, maybe teenagers but not kids. A punishment that the teenager can receive is being grounded, taking their electronics away, and not help the teenager fix their car so they will learn a lesson the hard way.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

It's ok for the parent to spank the child as long as it's not often or they don't use other things like a belt.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

I disagree with you because I think its not okay to hit a child, not even spanking.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

In my opinion, I strongly agree that parents should use spanking as an option to discipline their children because the spankings are painful enough for children to learn to avoid doing the wrong things.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

i totally agree to what you're saying. The next time they go to do something wrong they will think before they act and rember that spanking they got previously.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I support this because... I got spanked and I turned out to be a good daughter ..spanking teaches you not to do it again and be scared of doing it again.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree with you because I got spanked as well, and is actually more mature than SOME of the kids that did not get spanked.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I believe it is OK to spank your kid when they have done something really bad, they will learn right from wrong. However, that doesn't mean is OK for parents to be spanking their kids every single time they do something wrong.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes, parents should spank their children as a way to discipline them so it'll make them stop doing something wrong because they don't want to go through the pain by getting hit again.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Then the will remember not to do that ever again. Unless they want to be hurt.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Sometimes that's what a kid needs to behave all those Nos, stops, don't do that, just don't work sometimes.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I believe spanking is a good option to punish a child if nothing else works
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree that spanking is a good option for punishment but only if they have done something wrong .
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I don't have to spank my kids often. But as a parent I like having the option there, as a last resort...if they don't chose to make better choices.After all, if they are not disciplined properly in childhood, they will be in adulthood via....jail.I'd prefer them not to go there, as guard to prisoner abuse or prisoner to prisoner abuse is a much more scary thought. My child rearing strategies reflect current societal expectation and consequences for common citizens.There are too many argumentative variables with this issue.How much do you use spanking as a consequence to neg behavior in your children?For what reason, big or small?Belt or hand? I'll say this...spanking when your angry is not a good practice. It teaches your children that if your bigger you can get away with being a bully. When you get angry, take some time to reflect on what the proper punishment is. Spanking using tools of whatever kind are not a good idea, because you don't really know how much pain you are inflicting. Spank with a open palm on the butt, then you feel the same exact pain as they feel.Make sure your kids know ahead of time, that spanking is a option in your parenting list of possible punishments. In fact state ahead of time, all list of possible punishments. And one last thing I would like to suggest, something that works for me...even to this day with my 17 year old lol. If my kids are in the midst of acting out a undesirable behavior..I simply start counting from 1 to 5 out loud. If I reach 5, they go to their room for a time out. It's rare that I reach 5 with all of them in any situation. I learned this in a parenting course and it has been a great blessing to me ever since.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

spanking is your decision kids can be bad but use it as a last resort
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree with your comment ; it also depends on the situation.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

i agree because it will teach them a lesson and they wont do it again because they know spanking is an option.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Only as a last resort. I was beaten because my father thought I used too much chapstick. Poor soul.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I think spanking should be used if it will teach thee child in the long run but each child responds differently to different punishments while one child just telling them no or grounding them will work on another child it may take a spanking to teach them right and wrong.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Spanking has proved that it is a very effective form of discipline. I can from experience that it is true because I'm fairly disciplined and I was spanked. Of course, this isn't a perfect disciplinary option because some people that were spanked have turned into brats. I believe that it can be a good and bad thing unless you can make it so the child learns from it. The child has to know that there is a reason for him or her to be spanked, otherwise he or she will think of it as bad parenting and will do the same to his or her children and so on.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I believe that spanking you child because it shows then that what they did was wrong and if they dont want the feeling of a but woppen then they wont make the same mistake twice.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes so they can give the kids a reason not to do it again.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree but it has to be used as the last source and not used constantly and of course not to hard.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Humans have been raised for thousands of years with not near as much resentment towards spanking and today's kids are the unruliest there are...There's a trend...(I do admit it's not purely spanking that's the cause but it's a small part of the bigger picture)
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes because that way the child can learn not to do it again because it really hurt, and i know this from experience.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Yes i believe spanking should be a viable option for parents. However i feel very strongly that its spanking NOT smacking. And it should never be done in or out of anger.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I belive that bad kids need a good spanking sometimes .
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

Spanking children will bad for their development. We always teach children not to hurt others, but we do it on our children . It is not make sense.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

i agree. parents show their children to not someone but they hurt them. arent parents role models to their children?
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

i disagree, parents are role models to kids regardless. its not hurting them, its punishment.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

They can punish their kids in a different way. Spanking shouldn't be the first options, it should be the last.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

The debate is about whether it should be an option. No one said anything about the first option.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

I completely agree with you, children learn or mimic from others and hitting is a negative out look.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

I agree children are rally smart if you hit them they will just do worse because of the way you hit them and when you do that most of them become abusive
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Children starting at age 3 know what is good and what is bad, so sometimes they just do inpermissible things.And they also know that parents won't allow doing such kind of things.That's why parents have to stop this confusion.And usually curse is not enough.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

I agree with you to a certain extent. I don't like to spank my children but I will do it if I i have tried other options and they will not stop said behavior.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

Kids, don't know what's the difference between wrong or right, so spanking shouldn't be the answer.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

I agree, if you teach your children not to use physical punishment than the parent should as well follow their own rules. Plus, depending on the child the physical punishment might not even work and the child could possibly hold a grudge against their parents from the unpleasant punishment and cause them to be rebels.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

There is a difference between spanking and hurting your child. I understand children copy what their parents do but the child needs to know what he is doing right or wrong spanking is not the first step to telling your child whats right or wrong but they are never gonna learn if you don't set a limit!!
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

This is not always true. I mean when i was spanked I didn't hit anyone or anything..
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I agree With You because, i believe that children learn better when they feel that they are loved and not treated with violence.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

It depends the way you are discipling your child. You can't abuse them either. One spank however, it will not hurt them. You can't take advantage of the spanking method either but one will not hurt to discipline.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

It can be used in retalliation, not just punishment- and does anyone actually learn from it?
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

No, because they don't always need to get spanked for everything they do. Their parents need to teach them different ways.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

Yes, I agree with you! Children can't be getting spanked all the time for everything they do wrong.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

theres times when you need to spanked them not for everything but parents know when they need to
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: YES

I do agree they dont always needs to be spanked for everything they do but firstly, a parent should know the appropriate time to spank a child.
Debate: Human Growth and Development: Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?
Side: NO

I don't agree with what you're saying. The question was "Should parents use spanking as an option to discipline?" It never said they would get hit for everything. You will need to spank your child for some of the most serious things they do because if you don't they will think it's not that bad.