Do you spank your child/children?

[k.rodriguez]

Hi ladies, I have posted an article on my blog "To Spank or Not to Spank?" and have included a poll within the blog.  Please stop by and vote in the poll.  Please leave a comment in exchange for the link love at the bottom of the post.  Thanks for your support!

[Audrey]

Last time I entered into a debate on spaking it got very heated

[Happy Momma]

Yup- this is definitely one of those topics that people usually feel very strongly about.  I did stop by and vote on your poll and left a comment as well.

[Candid Carrie]

Wow, I avoid the topic fo spanking like the plague!  It is one of those topics and people are totally against it or totally for it and there often isn't anything in between

[berriesweetest]

i'm with everyone else on this one-not saying a thing. check out the co sleeping thread. that got heated enough and we were all just trying to get along!

[Audrey]

ROFL. I am grinning over here. We all have so much respect for one another that no one wishes to enter into a discussion on this topic.

Co-Sleeping. I'll finally discuss that today since my kids are older. It worked for us. But at the time the kids were young, folks would tell me I was damaging them for life.

[k.rodriguez]

I think controversial topics make for good reading and good debate!  With that said, I have another controversial post today.  We don't have to talk about it here but, come over, cast your vote, leave your link, and a comment!  The post is titled For English Press One...Should our children be required to learn Spanish in School?

http://tinyurl.com/58yemw

[Audrey]

I left you a comment

I'm fine to share my thoughts here. I think it's wonderful to have children learn a 2nd language. What I"m not ok with is forcing the language and making it mandatory.

[Danielle]

  i love you audrey!! my mom told me that i was doing my kids no favor by letting them sleep with me! i told her that my parenting skills were somewhat different from hers.. i enjoyed my kids sleeping by me, it gave them a sence of sercuity, and even more, my son has asthma, and i was always worried about him not breathing thourgh the night.. as for spankings, i do believe in them, but when i do it, i tell them why i am, what they did wrong, and that i do it because i love them, and it it commaned my our Lord, Jesus Christ. yes, this is a very touchy subject, but i am going to be brave, and put myself out on a limb. any comments??

[Audrey]

Do they still sleep with you? How old are they now?

[Danielle]

yes, sometimes they still do, my husband is out-of-town alot...he is sometimes gone for months at a time, so feel safer by being all together in one room.. my son is 10, my daughter, 9. and of course teh asthma thing...just don't like not being in teh room with him! now, when daddy comes home, they go back to thier beds  :)LOL

[Mom2ConnorRyan]

I very rarely spank and it usually a smack on the bottom.  Sometimes I will smack his hand to not touch something he should not.  I figured better than him burning or hurting himself.  But afterwards I always get down on his level and explain to him why.  I also hug him and tell I love him.  But usually time-outs work.  I used to think I would never do timeouts but I have been reformed! It is a touchy subject but a great debate is nice sometimes. 

[michellew]

It's definitely one of the "hot topics" Spanking, Abortion, Politics, Circumcision, Vaccinating... I could go on. It's hard to enter into any of these topics without things getting heated.

I am a very open person. I don't spank my kids. The only times I ever have, I felt totally out of control and basically like I had lost it. Even though it was "just" a little spank, I felt horrible for the rest of the day, both times. It just isn't effective discipline for me. And that is all I have to say about that.   

[k.rodriguez]

wow thank you ladies!  I  think this thread has gone really well!  I have spanked too but, I don't like it and it isn't effective  with my children.  And besides, I am usually wayyyyyyyyyyyyy to angry to spank when they really should get it so, I don't.  Keeps mommy out of jail!  LOL

[Danielle]

this is very interesting.. many mothers feel that spanking is a means of being out-of control, but it is not, taking time to explain to your children the conquences of your actions, and the reperquisions(sorry for the spelling,its late) are of the highest respect. if you just"went off" on a ramage it is another thing, out of control, but taking the time to explain the reason behind it is parenting at its best. because you love them and only want the best for them. there has to conquences for actions, it teaches self- maturity, and growth for adulthood, can't have my children blaming me for reasons why thier life not turning out for them, i do what is expected of me, but ultimately, they are responsible, for what they make out of life, i can trian them for life, but what they do with my parenting up bringing is up to them, you can prepare them, but you cannot life thier life. does that make sense?? comments??