Tyler

Human beings learn through three modes: 1) pleasure and pain 2) honor and shame 3) reason Children have undeveloped reason. Due to a lack of experience and thinking power, they struggle to follow a premise through a chain of reasoning to a conclusion. Children are responsive to honor and shame but not perfectly so. They are often shameless. Children will, in the absence of instruction, engage in emotional outbursts in public, insist on their own will, lash out physically when they don't get their way, and completely disregard the feelings of others. They do this not because they are evil but because they are ignorant. They don't have a developed theory of mind for others and their passions and physical sensations govern their conduct to a very high degree. It is difficult for a child to understand even the passing of time, much less the importance of deferred consumption. For all these reasons, children need parents to guide them through their early youth. The parent's reason substitutes for the child's deficiency. The purpose of the parent's authority is to protect the body of the child from harm while cultivating the child's mind until he can reach the age of freedom. During this time, and especially in the early youth, children require firm boundaries and a clear hierarchy of authority. They need this for their physical safety and for the maintenance of an orderly and structured home. The use of physical pain is one of the clearest and most effective ways of establishing this authority. Pain is sharp and decisive. It does not require the child to understand things they find unintelligible. Nor does it depend on their undeveloped sense of shame or their capacity for memory (which is weak). It is not necessary that a child understand what a speeding vehicle will do to a human body to know that they get a sharp rap on the wrist every time they run towards a busy street. Pain is a powerful and important teacher. A judicious parent should use this tool. A few crucial boundaries: parents should never hit a child in anger. They should never berate or insult the child. Spanking is not an "outlet" for the parent's emotions. Each use of physical punishment should come with a careful explanation of why this punishment was necessary and a reminder that the child is loved, that the discipline comes from a place of care for the child. The purpose of all parenting, again, is to raise the child to independence and freedom, to the use of their own reason. The end goal of all discipline by the parent is to one day come to a place of friendship and equality with the adult child.

There’s no rational conversation that can be had about religion with politically active Evangelicals because their core belief is that the most evil thing a person can be is a Democrat.

I'm not really anti-spanking but after five kids I can probably count the number of times I've actually had to do it in one hand. If you're doing things because you're mad you're losing, whether it's hitting or yelling or whatever.

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.

I'm now getting hundreds of comments that this definitely works and two year olds care a lot about what is dangerous or not

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.

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.

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.

"Why doesn't your church belong to a denomination, Brian?" Are you kidding me?