Should children be spanked?

[RMHoward]

Whip em,  Whip em good!!

Devo, 1980s

[RiversideLoki]

Whip em,  Whip em good!!

Devo, 1980s

Devo.

One of my favorite bands!  Based on the idea that we as a species are de evolving. (going backwards)

Ironic, considering.

They are also big in the Church of the Subgenius.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo#1975.E2.80.931980

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius

Funny you would quote them, you know, on a cosmic level.

PRABOB, dear brother in slack!

[RiversideLoki]

I was a "new" convert in '94... Ol' RMHoward here should know that we don't spank our children.. we eat them.. with fava beans...

[ronchamblin]

I thought we solved the paddling issue. Okay... a few more words.

The parents who proudly say they never spanked their children are able to enjoy this condition because they probably were quite above average in communicating with their children.  The children they delivered to the schools were very fortunate in having communication and social skills which allowed for good classroom behavior.  Teachers love them, and certainly don’t have occasion to wish paddling upon them.  There are many kids like this, who of course have no place in the paddling world. 

But the parents who failed miserably to communicate verbally and calmly with their children, who perhaps avoided their children, delivered to the school a child having a wild nature, a child with no self-discipline, with no social skills, and no communication skills.  What is the teacher to do?  The child does not understand language or words, nor does it slow down enough to focus on the meaning of words.  The child is semi-chaotic, impulsive, disruptive, and in need of intensive care, which the teacher is unable to give because of the needs of the other thirty kids.  Thank you parents, stupid and uncaring parents, for delivering such a disruptive kid to the classroom.  You deserve a black star, plus a paddling. 

Not being able to engage the wild child with words and calm communication, it would be quite appropriate in my view if the teacher had the tool of paddling to gradually force the semi-chaotic kid to slow down and think….. which is a good and necessary thing to do in a classroom.       

My somewhat antisocial behavior as a kid was a direct result of my being around an alcoholic and abusive father who almost never communicated directly and calmly to me.  I am of course not alone.  Therefore I was like a wild child, seeing little order or structure, deficient in social or communication skills, and not inclined to listen to rules and abide by them.  The occasional paddling in school began to impress upon me that there must be some order in the universe, that there was a right way to behave.  For me, the occasional paddling caused me to stop my chaotic behavior, and to begin to listen to the words spoken by the teacher and other adults.  In my opinion some parents should be paddled along with their kids, as they are in most cases the root cause of the child’s need for paddling.