Topic : Spanking: Useful or Cruel?

I believe the parent's need educating on "how to be a parent".  Too bad it's not a mandatory class before being allowed to bear children. 

So many people who have children, should have never become a parent in the first place.  How do you physically and mentally hurt someone you love?  How can one possibly believe hitting someone could be helpful in any way?

Dr. Phil, I say schools make it manadatory for all parent's of registered kids, to attend parenting classes.

Children live what they learn and what they are taught at home.  There's not a school teacher on this planet that can correct what is instilled in a child at "home".

I think that part of the problem with kids today is that they lack discipline. I can see the teacher's point that kids come into the classroom with a lack of discipline...but the classroom is not the place for corporal punishment. It is a place for learning and teaching...classrooms should not be feared by students and neither should teachers. Discipline begins in the home...and some extra curricular activities help teach it as well...but it starts with the parents. With that said, I think that spanking has a time and a place and no marks should be left behind. I don't agree with hitting your kids out of anger or with something besides your hand.

I am having a hard time understanding why parents are not taking the responsibility for their childs  behavior patterns.  I am 48 , my children are 32,28,18,13, and 7.  They have never had any real  discipline problems... the most is that my 13 year old daughter is very talkative.  I do not believe in corporal punishment.....i definitely do not want a teacher putting their hands on my child.  I had one incident where a subsititue actually got about 1 inch from my daughters face and screamed at her in front of her classmates because she was talking....I was extremely upset by that and went to the school and demanded to meet this teacher in person and ask what she felt gave her the right to scream at my child... she apologized and told me she had been having a bad  morning....  so?  anyway.....i really think it is how the child is discliplined at home for behaviors that we dont believe are appropriate.  I know that i have raised my children in a way that would make them productive happy adults.  without using hitting....i try to lead by example and i show alot of affection...i am always loving on my kids.....i have read a bedtime story everynight since my 32 year old was 6 months old...that is a tradition...i still do it with my 7 year old and sometimes my 13 year old comes and lays down to hear the story...we eat dinner at the table almost every night....no tv on...i hate that...we talk about our day and school and whatever they want to talk about.  i always listen.....i am very active in their education....both the middle school and the elementary know me by first name and by the sound of my voice on the phone....parents need to spend time with their kids!!!!!!