Reply #329: I agree. I posted earlier that it should be reserved for the top 1% of bad [View All]

[Hosnon]

behavior.

I was spanked and I knew what I did was horribly wrong. My Dad had "good reason".

So if they're being spanked to not do X, not doing X is not what is primarily learned. The primary thing learned is that the way to get someone to not do something is to hit them.

That is a bit of a leap from a specific instance to a general rule. Perhaps the primary thing learned is that the way to get someone to not do X is to hit them but I can't accept generalizing X all the way to something.

So long as X is in the top 1% of bad behavior I think it teaches a child not to do X.