reply to post by Canadianduder
I wasn't asking for the gory details, I was curious as to your stance on Child discipline. Wether you have kids or not is pertinent to that question
and was valid. Sorry if you thought I was prying.
Your method of discipline is the one I follow, on the whole. But I will not rule out a clip round the ear or a smacked arse and will use it as a last
resort. The problem with kids is that they quickly realise how to play the system and how to work around your discipline.
Sometimes, taking toys away, grounding or depriving them of dessert just doesn't work. I've often had one of mine turn round and say "So, I didn't
want desert anyway" and carry on behaving like they did.
At that point is where they get a clip round the ear and sent to bed, or if it's during the day, plonking them outside in the garden regardless of
the weather seems to work a treat too.
Sticking a misbehaving little oik in the garden for 5 mins when it's raining and 4c very quickly turns them from a gobby little kid into someone who
is very much apologetic and has learnt they don't misbehave. The next time round you only have to threaten to use the same punishment and the result
is the same. It's almost like a pavlovian response.
My partner on the other hand restricts her discipline to a mild telling off and empty threats, which the kids know she won't follow up on. When I am
not there, they are terrors. When I am there, they behave. It's almost as if they have split personalities.
Kids are devious creatures and if you don't have wide range of tools, including spanking, and follow up on threats to employ them, you end up with
horrible little turds.
