Why do parents spank their kids to teach them not to hit?
by 
100 percent pure... BEEF CHUCK
ANSWERS: 13
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I can't say through experience as I never had any. Perhaps they are teaching by example that hitting hurts.
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because their parents spanked them to teach them not to hit.
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Because they: Don't respect their children. Have a "do as I say, not as I do" mentality. Can't be bothered looking up alternative and MUCH more productive and EFFECTIVE methods of disciplining their children. Believe that physically punishing their children is harmless, because it "never did them any harm". Were taught not to hit others ... by being hit by their own parents.
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I could never figure that out either. The only time I ever spanked my son was when he ran out into the street one day, and I spanked him for that. He never did it again, and I told him while he was crying his little eyes out, that if a car had hit him, it would have hurt a lot more than a few smacks on the butt did. I always found that explaining why their behavior was unacceptable was much more effective than spanking them. Even a 2-year-old understands "NO! That's bad!"
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Because it shows them that it doesn't feel good to get hit. I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with spanking.
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Like the rest of you here, my mouth just drops to my chest (and heart) when I witness 'parents' hitting little ones. Most who hit have been hit, its 'what they know.' That doesn't mean though that there isn't a plethora of counter-information out there in magazines, news stories, TV shoes (Oprah, Nanny 911, et. al) 'Hitting' to these unfortunates, both the parent and the children, is just 'easier!' Or, so they think. The deal is parenting takes actual THOUGHT ... actual TIME ... and actual EFFORT. (I had to capitalize these words and its probably only one of a few times I could be accused of yelling! Obviously, this one 'gets to me!' because my father beat the s**t out of my brothers and me before we even knew what 'thinking' meant! The thing is REALLY = little one's BRAINS are NOT formed yet. They truly 'don't understand' a lot of what we adults lay on them. It is only through loving, patient guided repetition that these sweet'ums even start to 'get it' ... whatever that is. Hitting ANYTHING, let alone a child, never, ever works! (Not even on a 'padded bottom.')
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Because they have a small fit of anger and do not take time to determine what other means to use for discipline.
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It's the same as murderers getting the death penalty. Parents have the right, within reason, to spank their kids.
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Because no means no
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Children should never be spanked, they grow a thick skin and rebel against their parents. That is the perfect example of bad parenting. Regards.
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Spanking and hitting are two different things. If you parent your children right they will know the difference. Its all about cause and effect and the childs ability to understand why they are getting punished with spanking. Its like spanking a dog. If they poop on the floor and you disipline it five hours later they will have no Idea why you are hitting them. Spanking him in mid squat, they'll figure out why. Just my belief so don't judge.
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hmm indeed, exactly that, but here in NZ, there has been in place for a few months now, an anti smacking law, so its now illegal to hit your child, they hoped it would slow the high death rate we have in this country for young children that have been abused by their parents or caregivers, but as we suspected, it hasnt slowed anything, the people most likely to do damage to a young child, arent in the least bothered by laws that tell you not to smack, and thats just the way the world is..............
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Hitting is not spanking. Spanking is one good swat with the hand, only, on a clothed butt. Hitting, is punching.
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