I did receive a few that would probably be considered that now. I don't feel that way. I deserved them. I thank my parents now for giving them to me.

by Anonymous 6 years ago

Well-one of them certainly would!

by Anonymous 6 years ago

Some of them almost surely would be, yes. I wouldn't have "reported" my parents, but I do not think hitting children in anger is a *good* thing.

by Anonymous 6 years ago

Back when I was a kid they belted the sense into you not out of you. 乂^◡^乂

by Anonymous 6 years ago

I feel like it's gone from like beating to belting to spanking to yelling to strong coercion to polite suggestion. Polite suggestion doesn't work I'm afraid :P

by Anonymous 6 years ago

https://news.utexas.edu/2016/04/25/risks-of-harm-from-spanking-confirmed-by-researchers/ Anecdotal evidence with a sample size of one is meaningless. Let me quote a few passages for anyone who doesn’t want to read the whole thing: “The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of research on spanking by experts at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan.” “Gershoff and co-author Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, found that spanking (defined as an open-handed hit on the behind or extremities) was significantly linked with 13 of the 17 outcomes they examined, all in the direction of detrimental outcomes.” “Gershoff and Grogan-Kaylor tested for some long-term effects among adults who were spanked as children. The more they were spanked, the more likely they were to exhibit anti-social behavior and to experience mental health problems.” “The researchers looked at a wide range of studies and noted that spanking was associated with negative outcomes consistently and across all types of studies, including those using the strongest methodologies such as longitudinal or experimental designs. As many as 80 percent of parents around the world spank their children, according to a 2014 UNICEF report. Gershoff notes that this persistence of spanking is in spite of the fact that there is no clear evidence of positive effects from spanking and ample evidence that it poses a risk of harm to children’s behavior and development.” “Both spanking and physical abuse were associated with the same detrimental child outcomes in the same direction and nearly the same strength. “We as a society think of spanking and physical abuse as distinct behaviors,” she says. “Yet our research shows that spanking is linked with the same negative child outcomes as abuse, just to a slightly lesser degree.”” So who do we believe? Individual non-scientists who have no stronger argument than “I was spanked and I think I’m okay”, or scientists conducting a meta-analysis of 50 years of studies involving 160,000 children?

by Anonymous 6 years ago

I was never spanked. I just got punished.

by Anonymous 6 years ago

I never got spanked either, but my sister did about every day because she was always late for supper. We both turned out OK so there you are.

by Anonymous 5 years ago