A teacher of mine (family-studies) once said: "if you resort to hitting your children, you are implying that you could not defeat them in a civilized argument." - Do you agree or disagree?
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I disagree. Makes me wonder just how many children your teacher raised.
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No that is lame.
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I agree. What is the hitting for? If I wanted to take my frustrations out on someone, I'd hit OTHER people's kids.
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i disagree
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I'm opposed to hitting children, but that's a weak reason: children don't have logical arguments, they just dig in their heels with stubbornness and wants. There's often no sense in trying to win an argument with them. The parent needs to set boundaries and administer consequences, and that should be done without anger and violence.
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I agree. Part of the beauty of childhood is the freedom to make mistakes with relative impunity. The purpose is, of course, to learn from these mistakes as well as learning that making mistakes isn't always a sentence for severe punishment.
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I'm not sure I'll say there's no place for spanking, but it's probably usually true. But there are less extreme examples of that, which you see frequently creep even into conversations between adults. One is where some condescending shitwipe says something like, "Well, you're too young to understand." It may be true that younger people are less experienced, but doesn't age affect the truth value of an argument.
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Does this lady have kids? I don't think people need to hit their kids over every disagreement or "no, I don't want to.", but she obviously has never tried to have a civilized argument with a 5 year old. I can't have a point making argument with my five year old. She doesn't have points or evidence to back up her side of the argument. If she says she doesn't want to do something and I ask why she says "because" that is her argument. So yeah her arguing skills are not wonderful.
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