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    Child Discipline

    They also exist here, but are actually about, like, actual child development. Presumably everyone's talking about a mandatory "how to not drop your child on its head and other fables" sort of affair.
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    Child Discipline

    Ooh, good idea, driving families into poverty if they don't agree with you on parental psychology. Since there are people who feel that children should be beat if their parent considers it a 'last resort', then wow nope I hope a 'crash course' or parental license are not things that ever...
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    Child Discipline

    It's not valid logic at all. If there's even a 1% chance that you're going to fuck up your kid instead of making them shut up with no consequences, you don't do it. And I don't personally even think there's a single person not negatively affected by having their parents hurt them regularly, but...
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    Child Discipline

    But... it's not? This isn't that kind of thing. The point is that it's impossible to know in advance whether your child is going to end up being the scarred-for-life kind. I'm sorry but you just really can't know!! Adults sometimes can't tell! Children sometimes don't express overt signs! It's...
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    Child Discipline

    And when whole hosts of people here have said 'a few hits to set someone straight' has 'scarred them for life', you're telling them to get over it. You can't keep redefining this until nobody has a problem with it; why not actually face the problem that all kids are different and well-meaning...
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    Child Discipline

    Sure! But when you're twelve, you're way more likely to be that, I feel! And I'd argue that since you've been around a university lots with many other adults, you've still been waaay more exposed to their lives, right? As for your friends, they don't have parent-child power relations with you...
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    Child Discipline

    Wow. No, it's preeeetty creepy that the two main proponents here are both twelve. Your age has something to do with it because you're... really young?? I mean you have probably not talked to lots of adults who are still pretty messed up because of their childhoods? You still live at home where...
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    Child Discipline

    I just. Literally do not get why a child 'talking back' demands pain?? This entire thread has only completely cemented my feeling that if you are the type who would intentionally hurt any child for any reason, don't create them. And also, don't go near them.
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    Child Discipline

    Just because it worked for you, doesn't mean it works for everyone? Whereas if it didn't work for one person, that's usually the point where you should question it. I sort of listened to my parents because they were nice and usually I could trust them, not because I saw them as an ~authority~...
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    Child Discipline

    No. Being on the receiving end is, to my memory (and I didn't get a lot of it, really), absolutely and horribly terrifying. Also scary is how people's ideas of 'doing something really bad' differ. I got smacked the few times I was genuinely mean-spirited towards my sister, and mean-spiritedness...
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