Week 3 Post 2

--> Personally, I have known many people who have been taught this sort of “discipline” in the forms of wooden spoons, spanking, etc. I was only spanked once as a child, as was my brother. My dad tells us now that he walked away from it feeling like he didn’t make a positive influence on us, and that he didn’t use that for us again. What I believe the difference is between abuse and discipline is the parent’s mindset behind the entire thing. If the spank is happening because the parent is enraged and they want to take out their frustration with their kids by physically punishing them, there’s an issue there. But I have seen some kids who literally do not listen to a word their parents say (or yell) at them. If a parent has thought long and hard about if bringing spanking into their discipline routine and have determined that is what will work for their child, that is up to them. When they overstep is when a child is now living in fear of whether or not their parents are going to fly off the handle and hurt them at any given point. I think that children should always think their parents are in charge of them and will discipline them when necessary, but I think that it is counterproductive and harmful when a parent has now made their child afraid of their safety.