What ages is spanking appropriate, youngest and oldest (meaning parents spanking their children as punishment)?

there are better ways than spanking to get the children to understand what they did wrong

and its useless really, kinda like the dog who is beaten to make him more aggressive against intruders, but who ultimately mauls his owner O_o

also there are other methods like time out and stuff

what the? 7 - 8 months? ever heard of the shaken baby syndrome?

i wouldnt want you as my mother D:

In my opinion, never. Spanking teaches a child that its ok to deal with a problem with violence and thats its ok to hit others (and someone way smaller and younger).

I agree 100%

There are many other ways, not necessarily better ways. Each child is different and will respond to a combination of methods tailored to them as an individual. Spanking is one of the methods that will work well in that combination for most children if it is used properly.

No it doesn’t, not if it is done in a calm and controlled way.

i ment it as to show disaplin douce at that age todds/babys get into a lot of stuff i mean ud use as a last resort

If the child is held firmly in position there will be no shaking (never spank a standing child).

I like using tobasco sauce followed by a talk. First they will not want to do bad things because the tobasco will burn their mouth, but also tobasco is healthy, so it’s not harming their body. And also you always want to make sure the kid understands why they are being punished and realise a better way to behave.

I disagree. You are using physical violence to handle a situation, it doesn’t matter if you are calm, you are still hitting someone. Violence is wrong no matter how you pretty it up.

2 or 3 you should start so they get the message early enough without hurting them to much. I would say stop at around…10ish depending on the child

Hot sauce can burn their mouth, which constitutes injury, which is child abuse. Spanking results in brief, temporary pain which is not. Do not ever use hot sauce (or any other food substance) as a punishment or reward.

A good working definition of violence is the unjustified use of force. Since spanking for disciplinary reasons is justified, it is not violence. Spanking properly does not teach children that it is ok to hit.

A three year old that keeps touching the vase, now matter how much you move their hand away? As my grandmother used to tell me “those who don’t listen will feel”. I believe that once a child can reason, then there is no need for spanking. Certain things would be better for a child to get spanked rather than they learn the hard way. Like stay away from the stove. Spanking should be last resort. Unless its law that you cannot. But then again the police tends to do their own version of spanking to. Not less than 2 and maybe by 6 depending on their listening ability. Remember, warn and warn and warn some more first. And we not talking about abuse here. We’re talking about spanking. Small tap on the hand.

Hitting a 7 month old child is like kicking a dog. It doesn’t understand it, it distasteful and just plane evil.

I am shocked by all you people who say it’s ok to hit children! And to top it off, we even have a person FORCEFEEDING a child hot sauce, and saying it’s good for them!

Damn, if that was to happen in Norway, where I live, you could be procecuted and put in jail!

I would say spanking is most appropriate between the ages of 2 and 8. Latest, age ten, but I would NOT go past this age as children can start to enter puberty as early as this age.

You cannot and SHOULD not hit a child below a year and a half, and even at a year and a half to 2 years it should just be tapping their hand to say NO, you should not touch that, for shock rather than pain. Hitting a 7 or 8 month old will do nothing, that is called abuse.

No , it shows disaplin if u do it rite dumbass’s id use as if I’d keep saying no thy went listening then I would spank them on where the nappy is so thy get it as a negative way and u dnt hurt

That’s terrible! Why would u put hot sauce in q Childs mouth