Originally posted by Staga
I'm not the one using violence when raising kids. Thanks for playing
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say.
Here is what
you said:
"Gotta remember that excuse if I find myself
again from court and being accused of assault, "When I noticed I had hit too hard I did stop immediately, I'm not a violent assaulter"
The "again" in that sentance implies you have already been in court accused of assault.
I haven't been, nor will I ever.
When I say I "spank" my kids you are probably thinking I do this regularly. I don't...at all. I use the "twack" method that Ripsnort suggested years ago for the most part. I take my middle finger and apply pressure against my thumb...then I "thwack" the kids forehead lightly, but hard enough to get their attention.
If that fails and the child is being totally unreasonable and uncontrollable I will swat them once, maybe twice on the backside.
As far as the "excuse" thing goes, I was just simply saying that "if" anyone spanks their child they should NEVER use anything other than their hand. You have no way of knowing how hard that object is hitting your child. With your hand you do.
The only time I have ever spanked my son "too hard" was once, when I thought he had a diaper on. Believe me...if you spank a three year old who has a diaper on if you don't add a bit extra force he will just laugh at you. When I hit him I immediately realised he didn't have the diaper on and was horrified at the strength of the hit. But, he followed me around like a puppy dog for the rest of the night trying ANYTHING to please his daddy. I probably haven't been hitting hard enough previously. lol
Anyway...all of this is quite amusing as so many of the anti-spanking dudes have no children and have absolutely NO CLUE as to what raising kids is like.