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From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: How to discipline short of spanking
Message-ID: <1899@burdvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 12:43:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 12:43:36 1985
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Reply-To: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Organization: Burroughs Corp. - SDG/Devon
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Summary: 

In article  allenm@ittvax.UUCP (Allen Matsumoto) writes:
>...
>To make my position explicit, I am opposed to spanking.  I don't believe
>spanking is good for raising children.  I don't see how it could avoid
>encouraging violence.  The occasional use of spanking must be tempered
>with copious amounts of love (if violence has to be resorted to at all).

According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, violence is defined as
"exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse."  Now I would not
suggest that there are occasions where parents become abusive in their
treatment of children, however, I would not catagorize all types of
physical discipline as violence.  I believe there are appropriate times for
spanking for the proper discipline of children.

>It seems to me that anyone who thinks monthly is rare, must have a
>frightening belief of what "normal spanking" would be.  Obviously we
>aren't talking about child abuse, but that's still a lot more spanking
>than I would have imagined parents have to resort to.  Am I completely
>unrealistic in this?  I don't think once a year would bother me (much),
>but once a month?

Why spank at all, even once a year, if you are so opposed to it?  Obviously
you don't spank with any well-thought-out intentions of changing the
child's behavior.  In your case it would seem to be both callous and
capricious.


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Tom Albrecht 		Burroughs Corp.
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