[JediReturns84]

kids are different. sending me to my room was a waste of time. i'd just go read, and come out an hour after they said i could. stick me in the corner, and i'd fall asleep. time out didn't work. yelling? my father and stepmother were always yelling, so i was numb to it. pain i remembered. and then getting the hell out of there and deciding for myself what kind of person i wanted to be. the pain was only a minor issue, as i have no flasbacks when getting a tattoo on an area that i would have been beaten on. don't even think of it.
face it, everyone is different. and a simple ass whupping really didn't hurt those of us who went thru it. and it also doesn't mean that we'd do the same to our kids. best thing folks can do is, calm down before doing the whupping.

And my point is that a parent shouldn't have to beat or abuse their children to get a point across. If that's the case, that kid has no hope for getting discipline through their thick head. Now a spanking - a simple pat on the butt or a tap on the hand or wrist that - to me - is not abuse. Now if you are whaling on your kid and have lost all restraint, that's abuse.