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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 591072" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>After difficult child, I spanked strictly for safety issues - just a swat on the behind, once. Stuff like touching electric outlets, running away from me in parking lot. Not for "misbehavior."</p><p></p><p>I spanked difficult child the way I was spanked - for any infraction. What my son taught me is that it's not a good way to discipline kids (for me). When I realized I was spanking him more in anger and frustration than for any corrective action (for lack of a better term), I stopped. Spanking didn't work with him because he didn't care if he got spanked, and he sure didn't seek parental approval like most young kids do.</p><p></p><p>Funny/sad story about spanking - I got my last spanking at age 13 (yeah, I know). It was in the middle of the energy crisis in the 70's. I heard my dad drive in the driveway and turned out my bedroom lights and ran down to great him. He was *livid* and just bent me over his knee, because he assumed I had left my lights on. I hadn't. I never again ran down to greet him. I think his reaction was more a reflection of his generalized unhappiness with his life (lousy marriage that he endured for another 10 years "for the kids"). We laugh about it now because... well, he is human too. When I realized that I was spanking thank you more out of frustration with his behaviors than anything else, and that I was turning into my father, it was a really shocking moment for me and helped me stop cold.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 591072, member: 8"] After difficult child, I spanked strictly for safety issues - just a swat on the behind, once. Stuff like touching electric outlets, running away from me in parking lot. Not for "misbehavior." I spanked difficult child the way I was spanked - for any infraction. What my son taught me is that it's not a good way to discipline kids (for me). When I realized I was spanking him more in anger and frustration than for any corrective action (for lack of a better term), I stopped. Spanking didn't work with him because he didn't care if he got spanked, and he sure didn't seek parental approval like most young kids do. Funny/sad story about spanking - I got my last spanking at age 13 (yeah, I know). It was in the middle of the energy crisis in the 70's. I heard my dad drive in the driveway and turned out my bedroom lights and ran down to great him. He was *livid* and just bent me over his knee, because he assumed I had left my lights on. I hadn't. I never again ran down to greet him. I think his reaction was more a reflection of his generalized unhappiness with his life (lousy marriage that he endured for another 10 years "for the kids"). We laugh about it now because... well, he is human too. When I realized that I was spanking thank you more out of frustration with his behaviors than anything else, and that I was turning into my father, it was a really shocking moment for me and helped me stop cold. [/QUOTE]
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