Childhood

Worst mistake of my childhood was saying "that didn't even hurt.

I never got the belt, but I still have a high enough moral standing to not be a cunt to everyone.

What OP really remembers

mfw OP's parents failed him by beating him, and now tries to convince people that it was for good.

Mutual respect between me and my parents, developed through conversation and explanation, is what made a decent person. Not being beaten.

I also remember this

I remember that.

I used it to hold up my pants.

I'm a good mannered young adult and my parents never hit me

I really like hearing people's personal opinions on this issue.

Personally, I was spanked as a child, and a couple of times I got the slipper, and the belt.
I don't however, feel like I learnt a moral sense of right and wrong from the experience, in fact, I think it encourage violence TOWARD my parents as I got older.

Don't get me wrong, I love my parents, but I would not adopt the same method.

In the same way I treat my dog with humility and train him using a reward systems rather than a punishment one, I aim to treat my child in a similar way.
Discussion, encouragement of good behaviour and spending time with your children goes a long way.

>Go to predominantly black primary/elementary school
>Black kids always talking about getting beaten
>Assume I was beaten too
>Mfw I only got raped

Or a naughty, naughty girl.

Spanking children actually appears to lower their IQ in comparison to none spanked Children.
I do have stuff to back that up as well.
The study was shown at the International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma back in september 2009.
The study showed
"Straus studied 806 children ages 2 to 4 and 704 ages 5 to 9. Both groups were retested four years later. How often parents spanked influenced IQ score. "The more spanking, the slower the development of the child's mental ability," Straus said in a news release. "But even small amounts of spanking made a difference."

TLDR?: I don't know if being smacked makes you act better. But it's likely to damage a childs IQ

you're kidding right? good mannered young adult... yeah right. my parents whooped my ass a lot with belts when i was little, yet now i cuss like a sailor, fap everyday, and I'm "slightly" racist. yup, im a very "good mannered" young adult.

My mother tried spanking me once, and I just couldn't take her seriously and started laughing my ass off. I haven't been spanked since.

before my whippings when i sassed my mother, my dad always just told me to upstairs and prepare for my spanking... which to most kids would mean, cry, think about what youve done and that shit. I would go upstairs... and prepare. Id put on 17 pairs of underwear. then id put my jeans on over that before my dad came upstairs to whip his now deformed son.
mfw

What is that?

Who the fuck uses a braided belt? Straight leather has a much cleaner strike.

Am I the only one who considered it's aimed at all those douches walking around with their pants around their knees?

You know, maybe it's just me, but I was always a pretty good kid, despite only having been spanked three times (that I can remember at least, the last time I remember being spanked was 15 years ago, so it's been a while)... I think the problem is that nobody ever teaches kids WHY they shouldn't do something, they just teach them what the penalty is. This does not teach good behavior, it only teaches kids to hide bad behavior to avoid punishment. If you don't teach a kid WHY they shouldn't do something, they will have no reason to not do it again if they think you won't find out about it. That's why I think I ended up such a good kid, because I was taught WHY I shouldn't do certain things.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I've also noticed that parents teach (or try to at least) their kids bullshit lessons, like how they should always respect their elders. Respect is not something that is earned simply by being older than dirt. If you are a racist, misogynistic asshole, I don't care if you're in your 80's, you are not getting respect.

Teach kids to think, not to just follow the leader. We need more shepherds, not more sheep (so to speak).