I totally deserved it too. It was a light bap and I was more shocked than anything. If you're curious, I'd blown my tongue in his face when he was cross with me, which is not a very respectful or proper thing for a child to do.
Point is, I didn't go beating up other kids, or getting all traumatized. My father was most of the time incredibly passive with his treatment of us and always caring and affectionate. That he even struck at all was enough of a "you totally crossed the line" for me to know it and I never did it again. It wasn't fear, it was an establishment of a boundary. A smack upside the head never killed anyone and when the occasion calls for nothing less, then nothing less will serve.
But these are the idiots who'd tell you it's wrong to smack a horse for biting you too. blighters.
Point is, I didn't go beating up other kids, or getting all traumatized. My father was most of the time incredibly passive with his treatment of us and always caring and affectionate. That he even struck at all was enough of a "you totally crossed the line" for me to know it and I never did it again. It wasn't fear, it was an establishment of a boundary. A smack upside the head never killed anyone and when the occasion calls for nothing less, then nothing less will serve.
But these are the idiots who'd tell you it's wrong to smack a horse for biting you too. blighters.
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Smacked children more successful later in life, study finds
- 05/01/2010 08:20:35 AM
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My dad once bapped me across the face once.
- 05/01/2010 08:36:24 AM
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I am a firm believer in physically reprimanding your kids if need be
- 05/01/2010 01:45:24 PM
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This is what I like to hear. Kids need to be knocked around a bit.
- 05/01/2010 01:46:25 PM
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YES! Beat their bad little asses with no shame! Viva la revolucion! 
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- 05/01/2010 04:06:36 PM
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- 05/01/2010 04:06:36 PM
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It's a pretty small study, but it's nice to see someone at least looking at the other side of things *NM*
- 05/01/2010 04:39:49 PM
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Those researchers should know better than to publish that. Children have no long-term memories of...
- 05/01/2010 05:06:21 PM
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I don't know. I mean, yes it could be better designed
- 05/01/2010 05:17:02 PM
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Interview studies are suspect in general.
- 05/01/2010 05:31:31 PM
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we can't really judge simply on what a newspaper reported.
- 05/01/2010 05:47:13 PM
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Better study:
- 05/01/2010 06:58:04 PM
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yes because a parent wouldn't lie about how they hit their kid.
- 05/01/2010 07:02:10 PM
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First, I am not outraged. Second, this study is pure junk because of what I said.
- 06/01/2010 01:16:04 AM
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Re: Better study:
- 06/01/2010 03:16:03 PM
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for the following statement....
Re: I want Camilla and Ben to come here and argue about this. And Tim's dad. <mourns> *NM*
- 06/01/2010 05:51:57 AM
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