Spank your kids or have spoiled brats?

This is a terrible poll. If I have children, which I won't, I wouldn't hit them unless necessary. I'd lecture them or some shit.
Unless they tell me to fuck off. They're getting ass kicked.

Why make a poll if you're just going to make it completely biased? You're destroying the whole point of having a poll in the first place.

You don't need to abuse your children to make them not be spoiled

Coming from someone who was abused as a child, I would certainly never put my own children through that. I don't have any kids, but if I ever do, then I will teach them to behave WITHOUT hitting them.

I'd just like to ask one question. How would you feel if someone that was 3 meters tall and weighing three times you weight started to get really pissed at you then picked you up like a rag doll and beat you. You have no means of defending yourself at all. That's what it feels like from a child's point of view. I call anyone who beats their child a coward. There are always other ways to make children learn. I remember a teacher once telling us about a kid who got a beating from his mom because he had hit another kid. Where is the sense in that? You get a beating to teach you not to hit someone else. Where's the logic in that?

You can always discipline them. Spanking them isn't going to improve anything. They won't be spoiled brats if you know how to raise them.

Neither

everyones says theyll never spank their kids untill they actually have them lol theirs a fine line between spanking and abusing. /i beleive you should use spanking as a last resort after you've tried everything else. but yes i do believe a kid needs a good spanking every once in a while. back in the day everyone spanked, and now everyones too scared to whip their kids because of cps and what not, and people wonder whats wrong with kids these days. Their just not disiplined enough. like the bible says...spare the rod, spoil the child.

What a horrible poll! There are other ways to discipline, you know. Children who are spanked are being taught that violence is the way to teach lessons, and that's simply not true.

I won't hurt 'it'?
It saddens me that you would though.

Seems the only 'learning' with a child being spanked is how to fear your parents (great going there) and ultimately to physically hit out at other people when you think they're wrong!

IT don't work.
I choose choice 3. Therefore I didn't vote.

I was spanked as a child, and I didn't turn out with any problems. Time out never worked for me either. Infact, I liked time out. I was always a creative kid, so time out just gave me time to myself where I could think. A lot of people wanna say that spanking your kids is bad, and that there is a different alternative, but I would say, all kids are different. The punishment depends upon the child and what works best for them. A good parent should know there own child and know if spankings work or if it's best for them to have time out. Some kids don't even need either but simply hate the fact that they dissapointed their parents. Anyways, it all boils down to the kid.

Kill those bratty children. Fucking demon alienoid freaks.

I'm going to take this poll literally here, because I doubt your looking for a speech about how there are better methods of punishment than spanking, you were looking for an A or B answer. I'm going to assume this is true and only give you an answer and an explanation, not a speech about the fact that being a spoiled brat is not the worst thing a child can be.

If I had to choose, between spanking my kids and having spoiled brats, I'd choose spanking my kids, assuming it will help them become productive members of society.

Hmm. That's so black and white!
I've never hit my sons, and I never would. I prefer to talk to them and help them understand what they did wrong, maybe discuss it a bit. Whereas my husband, on the other hand, adopts a 'Ned Flanders' angle to parenting!
Think on't.

Spank. There is absolutely a difference between abuse and discipline, even though a lot of so-called "breeders" (and there's a difference between breeders and parents!) would say otherwise.
You can give a light tap on the butt without bruising. You just tell the child WHY they are getting a swat, give them a swat, and be done with it quickly so you and child can both move on!

How about swatted? It startles them when they don't expect it. Mine got the hint. I never really spanked. Just swatted.

Spank them.
I acknowledge that there are other ways to discipline a child, but for me, I'll probably spank them in addition to taking things away.

I was a very well treated child, with very set in stone rules. My parents were not strict, but when I did break one of the rules in place, I knew exactly what my punishment was going to be. A spanking.

Guess how many times my parents had to spank me before I learned to stay on the right side of the line? Three (I have always been a bit daft) But after the third time they didn't have to spank me.

My children will be disciplined, but not abused. There is a difference in the two. Anybody that doesn't see the difference either grew up in a non spanking house hold, or grew up in an abusive household. (to the latter I am very sorry)

My mom used to put a spoonful of pepper in my mouth. That sucked. I'd probably do that. It made me the amazing person I am today.

Spank the brats! there's nothing wrong in corporal punishment. At least kids knew manners when you hit them.

If they're being completely out of line... WHOOP THAT BUTT!

I gave my son hidings when he needed them, and he has turned out to be the best kid around. I also got hidings and there is nothing wrong with me

Noo no no

My Mom spanked me, it didn't hurt me and I find your second option to provide a false dichotomy. There is a third option: Spank your child, as my mother did, as a means of discipline, not an outlet for anger. I am a perfectly well adjusted human being, I sure as hell deserved to get my ass smacked when I was being pert, and if more people still spanked their kids we wouldn't have so many bastards running around wreaking havoc.

NOTE TO ALL COMPLAINING

The poll IS MEANT to be black and white with no ''OTHER'' as option. I want to see what would you people prefer if no other method worked.

Everything but a spoiled brat.

Neighter.

Beat them with a piece of wood!

If you think about it you don't do it hard its the shock to the child that sort of does it...You were probably Given a lil tap on the hand ur rear

I got hit a couple of times.
I deserved it.

I'm glad I was spanked. I deserved it many times!