Harvey Dent

The child doesn't need to understand the reason for the spanking. They need to understand not to do the thing they are being spanked for. This is crucial when it comes to physical safety. If I order one of my children not to run into the road then they need to stop immediately and without question. They do not need to understand what a speeding car can do to a human body.

>"older generations all spanked their kids" >look inside >it's the same generations who destroyed the country and just spent the past two weeks gaslighting their kids about how it's actually their fault

If your child is too young to understand why their behavior is wrong, they're too young to understand why they're being spanked. If they're old enough to understand, then spanking them is both unnecessary and, at best, a shortcut around some other method that would actually help them understand. There's no real argument against this. Every single "valid situation" people offer is retarded. "My kid was going to run in the street/they were hitting their sibling/they were going to pull boiling water on themselves." All your fault, all your responsibility, whether they are old enough to understand why these things are wrong or not. If you fail to prevent these situations, you turn to your inability to correct your child without blaming them for YOUR mistakes. So many of you have been oneshotted by lead-brained Boomerism. You make retarded, invalid analogies to war or criminality. You imagine hypothetical scenarios in which you feel morally righteous about hitting your kids. It's no wonder so many of these people bought into COVID hysteria and have now become Talk Radio Americans with the intellectual depth of Clay Travis and Benny Johnson. You are failed normies who just want an opportunity to exert frivolous, unearned authority over a person with no ability to resist or counter you. You would be right at home in the HR department or the public school teacher's lounge or a civil rights law firm. You would be cozy and comfortable in the unempathetic, narcissistic Boomer generation, who just got done lecturing you about how you should eat saltines with a squirt of ketchup on them to save money and never experience joy so that you can afford a house in 20 years. And these people will call you a "liberal" for noticing.

whoops my kids built the leaning tower of death because they wanted more M&Ms, better put them in time out to teach them about the moderate social consequences of such behavior!

Hitting your children is low agency, low impulse control, and vengeful. You think this is great if you’re insentient and only understand consequences if they’re immediate and they hurtsies your feelsies. The compulsion to do so is a proxy for the endless boomers vs millennials/gen z tough guy contest. Boomers inserted into CVLTVRE that hitting is HOW YOU HECKARINO CONTROL YOUR KIDS, tacitly trying to say if you don’t you’re a P*SSY SNOWFLAKE. Because uh like, men are physical and children are smaller and subordinate to us or something. Current generation now has to play the game of “NUH UH WERE TOUGH AND WILL BEAT OUR CHILDREN SO THEY WONT BECOME SNOWFLAKE MILLENNIALS”. In a way, this is an attempt at the approval of one’s parents well into adulthood, indicating starvation for affection. Children are not hard to control through relationship, clarity, and other consequences. Really not hard to just follow up on threats to take away PlayStation or something. Or even explain to them the causal chain of their behavior, they’re incredibly smart and receptive. Hitting is just a cope to make yourself comfortable by immediately stifling their upset or whatever. You are terrified of your child’s feelings and are too socially inept to deal with them and sitting in that discomfort for any period of time. You are the child. It is emotional weakness, directly opposing the idea that it’s TOUGH ™. Hitting at best only teaches them consequences of authority, not natural consequences of life. They won’t learn to think through their behavior, they’ll learn to overrule authority. Once there’s no authority above them they have no reason to behave.

Hitting your kids is in the same category as circumcision, iPads, strict adherence to the CDC vaccine schedule---it is for Ns, goyim, and walmart pajama people. It lowers IQ (Straus, 1995), increases aggression (Gershoff, 2016), is less effective than a timeout, and requires escalation to keep working. The replies to articles like this are filled up with the Dumbest People Who Ever Existed saying "it worked for me" and then genuinely malicious and hateful morons dropping reaction gifs of like daffy duck swinging a belt "EVERY STATE IN AMERICA ALLOWS YOU TO PHYSICALLY CORRECT YOUR CHILD. It's legal. It's fun. Bring it on." -- profile says: Cat Sanctuary Dad. Unyielding steel. Workouts, keto, cat chaos, anime rants. Godzilla, Gundam, Mazinger, Ultraman, classical art, manga. If you hit your kids, you will create permanent emotional distance with the only person/people you could ever be that close to, not to mention sending them down the road of being as much of a lost fuckup loser as you are who will hit their own kids, or wont, but only after spending a decade figuring out why they reflexively apologize all the time.