Comments on: Why is Spanking NEVER an Option? https://mommyevolution.com/spanking-is-never-an-option/ Mom Smarter! Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:34:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mommy Evolution https://mommyevolution.com/spanking-is-never-an-option/#comment-138872 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=13673#comment-138872 In reply to will.

How sad that there is so much scientific data to show the ongoing emotional harm of spanking – even decades later – and yet you choose violence.

]]> By: will https://mommyevolution.com/spanking-is-never-an-option/#comment-138821 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=13673#comment-138821 Trish your the perfect mum and u punish the right way. Spanking will never be a wrong way in sociaty. Kik me gardenerwill91

]]> By: Mommy Evolution https://mommyevolution.com/spanking-is-never-an-option/#comment-132763 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=13673#comment-132763 In reply to Lynn.

I’m sorry you had to go through that as a child. Thank you for sharing.

]]> By: Lynn https://mommyevolution.com/spanking-is-never-an-option/#comment-132758 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=13673#comment-132758 In reply to Trish.

A beautiful thing? How could inflicting fear, pain, humiliation on your own child by the person they love more than anyone else ever be referred to in that way? It’s lazy and destructive and shouldn’t be termed something cute like “spanking “ . Have the guts to call it what it is; hitting, slapping, punching, whichever term applies. As someone who was hit as a child and watched my six siblings also hit, I will testify to the lasting damage it inflicts.

]]> By: gbalkam https://mommyevolution.com/spanking-is-never-an-option/#comment-125449 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=13673#comment-125449 “hitting a child teaches them how to be “good” ” Are you stupid? SPANKING..not hitting is in no way a means to teach a child how to be good, it is a method of teaching a child consequences.
Spankings should be a last resort consequence to answer a challenge to parental authority. It is the ultimate response to the challenge “Make me!”
Once you have firmly established that you can and are willing to, “make them” you might never have to spank that child again, and they don’t end up OD’d on drugs they got from some 40 yr old as a “party”.

]]> By: Jennifer Hughes https://mommyevolution.com/spanking-is-never-an-option/#comment-83795 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=13673#comment-83795 In reply to Sensory Mom.

We found the reset time (rather than time out) as a better way to approach things. For our son, it doesn’t mean he’s in trouble for having his emotions, but it does signal that he needs to manage them in a different way. Usually by the time reset is done, he’s calm and we can spend just a minute or two talking about how we could have handled things differently.

]]> By: Sensory Mom https://mommyevolution.com/spanking-is-never-an-option/#comment-83789 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=13673#comment-83789 In reply to Jennifer Hughes.

Jennifer- I love the idea of a reset time especially as our daughter gets older! I think it would help grow emotional regulation independently which is a hard task to learn. We usually do more of a time in, I’m usually with working towards calmness with our daughter since she is still learning self-regulation.

]]> By: Nicole https://mommyevolution.com/spanking-is-never-an-option/#comment-83611 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=13673#comment-83611 In reply to Trish.

AMEN! And I love this article about top CEO’s in this country were spanked. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-10-08-spanking-ceos-usat_x.htm
I was spanked as a child and it was done the right way like you talked about. I didn’t get them often. Now I’m a grown woman who loves and respects my parents. A successful business owner of 4 companies. And a loving mom of 3 who spanks when needed.

]]> By: Trish https://mommyevolution.com/spanking-is-never-an-option/#comment-83235 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=13673#comment-83235 This is the most ridiculous, liberal thing I have read in a while. Our society has the highest crime rates in history. Not to mention the fact that kids are, in general, disrespectful. Respect for others and respect for property went by the wayside when parents stopped disciplining their children. Having a child “reset” and go to their rooms might work for an older child who is generally good but it will not work for younger children. Spanking, when done correctly, can be one of the most beautiful things between a parent and a child. In no way is it meant to shame a child and it should never be done with a belt as you described, it’s ludircous and uneducated to even suggest that! I highly doubt your friend who spanks uses a belt. When a parent and child know how to do a spanking correctly it is highly effective. What a spanking should be: a few quick swats to the rear end of a child who compliantly lies over their parents lap followed by hugs and kisses and an age-appropriate talk about the way the child is expected to behave. A spanking shouldn’t be done out of anger or frustration and it shouldn’t occur after a child has pushed the parents buttons to the point the parent feels as if they have no other options.
To suggest these harsh, awful ideas about spanking is uneducated and narrow-minded. Perhaps you need to do some more research. Research the crime rates in countries where spanking is illegal for starters. I’m sorry if you disagree, but I for one would much prefer to swat my child’s very resilient rear end a few times while they are young then visit them in prison when they are older. Think about it, research it, read a book that is pro-spanking and then come back and re-evaluate. Every adult I know who was spanked (not beaten, that’s totally different!) will admit they are so much better off for it and that it in no way damaged them as people but it instilled a healthy fear of their parents and authority. If you choose not to spank, that’s fine. But don’t use your blog to shame other parents into feeling as if they are abusing their children if they choose to spank.

]]> By: Jennifer Hughes https://mommyevolution.com/spanking-is-never-an-option/#comment-82906 https://mommyevolution.com/?p=13673#comment-82906 In reply to Dhazzhi.

You’d be surprised at how many people grab a belt, switch or otherwise to spank their child.

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