Aint that the truth!

Sit the fuck down because it's time for some childhood psychology and behavior management.

What we have here is a misunderstand of the following terms: discipline and punishment. There is a difference, one which is not made above.

Spanking is what's called "positive punishment" because you're adding a stimulus (the "positive") in order to reduce a behavior that the parent views as adverse (reducing a behavior = punishment). It's been proven over and over again that punishment without the use of positive reinforcement (adding stimulus in order to increase a behavior) is not as effective as punishment when paired with positive reinforcement. Punishing a child for an adverse behavior will most likely cause that child to engage in avoidance or escapist behaviors; they won't perform the "bad behavior" (at least in a way they will be caught) and will behave in a way to avoid the spanking. Positive reinforcement promotes good behavior. Instead of having kids avoid adverse behaviors they are promoted to perform good behaviors.

Discipline is most effective when both reinforcement and punishment are present. For example, spanking can be used when a child performs an adverse behavior (such as swearing or stealing) but reinforcement should be used when they do well (such as good grades, telling the truth). When punishment is the only discipline used then kids will not know how to act; they'll only know how to not act. When replacement behaviors (behaviors that are designed to replace adverse behaviors) are not present there's a behavioral vacuum created in which kids will default to adverse behaviors.

So, OP, spanking alone will not prevent little shits from being little shits. Being a good role model, reinforcing positive behaviors, and showing them how to be decent human beings will.

My mum never hit me and I still have manners and decency.

ITT: people with no kids saying how people should raise their kids

studies have actually shown physical discipline is bad for a childs physche. it triggers our pain reaction center which tells us to be afraid and to not go near them, while a childs brain is telling them to seek their parents for everything they need. this can potentially create a multitude of issues later in life. while discipline IS important, physical is not the way to do it, it does not teach right from wrong it only instills fear.

People always get butthurt about these posts.

Heck, OP is right - if we spank kids to death they won't grow up! Brilliant!

With the right choice of words, you don't need physical contact to get the point across.

I was beaten as a kid and now I'm showing sociopathic tendencies My dad was an alcohol.

=====the kid being spanked looks like he's having the time of his life

Fuck yeah dad!

Dat Ass!

Correction

A new analysis of two decades of research on the long-term effects of physical punishment in children concludes that spanking doesn’t work and can actually wreak havoc on kids’ long-term development, according to an article published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Psychologists follow children over many years, monitor how much they’re spanked, and then take measure of their aggression over time. “We find children who are physically punished get more aggressive over time and those who are not physically punished get less aggressive over time,” says Joan Durrant, the article’s lead author and a child clinical psychologist and professor of family social sciences at the University of Manitoba.

Sweden a country with one of the lowest crime rates has put a law against physically hitting children. Nurturing love is best love.

This is by far the stupidest bullshit i've seen on funnyjunk in a looooong time.
No fucking logic.

"If your son does something wrong, smack him. If he does it again, smack him harder."

I respect that people here have been raised with dicipline, and if they think that's the way to go, then thats fine.

However, I have 2 brothers, and the 3 of us were never diciplined nor punished. We didn't have to follow any specific rules, and we were pretty much allowed to do whatever we wanted to.

HOWEVER, my parents are very caring, and they did a terrific job teaching us how to behave properly. My brothers are honestly the nicest people i have ever met, and i like to think that im like that aswell.

My point is that in my mind, "loving and caring" beats "punishing" any day.

Beating your kids don't teach them a lesson. Discipline does, and discipline doesnt only mean beating. Beating will most likely make it worse.