Raise your hand against smacking

"Raise your hand against smacking" is a Europe-wide awareness-raising initiative against corporal punishment of children, launched by the Council of Europe in June 2008. It aims at legally banning corporal punishment of children, promoting positive parenting and raising awareness of children's rights throughout Europe. No religion, belief, economic situation or "educational" method can ever justify hitting, smacking, spanking, mutilating, abusing, humiliating, or any other practice that violates a child's dignity. It is internationally recognised in human rights law that children have a right to protection from all forms of violence, including corporal punishment in all settings (home, school, penal systems, and alternative care).

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[tnpnc]

Spankings did nothing for me. I was a rebel. I still

...did whatever the hell I wanted to do anyway, and to this day, I dare

someone tell me how to live my life. You don't have to be a parent to

know. You have to be a child. The problem with the pro-spankers is that

they have a blind-loyalty toward their parents and will never admit

that they made any mistakes. So, it's always easier to say, "I deserved

it" then to face reality which is A LOT harder than any kind of ass-whoopin'!

[lemmingGTP]

I'll raise my hand at anyone that tells me not to smack my kids... they've grown up to be excellent children! my grandad got smacked in turn smacking my dad and i got smacked when i did anything that i wasnt supposed to do or say... you ask my kids if they are happy with their punishment... seriously... inbox me and ill print it out and take it to the hospital to ask them...

[GenX6887]

Arguing with pro spankers is like arguing with toddlers. You just can't reason with them, plain and simple!

[rayblack2004]

we are afraid of looking bad and thats why we dont spank, and thats why kids do whatever the hell they want now

[gorillas400]

@xxsharonxxyo lmao your blaming that on parents who dont spank? you must be one of the most ilogical people i have ever seen! and dont reply i hate arguing with people like you

[puppieeyes223]

@xxsharonxxyo no, its' not. your logic is stupid and unreasonable and i'm not replying to you anymore because you don't make any sense.

[xxsharonxxyo]

@puppieeyes223 exacly I was just making a point that its pretty harmless, its not abuse or torture in any way. Its a short sharp shock.... and thats what it does. It shocks you into not doing it again. Kids respect authority more and they dont become the vile scum we see around. For example the kids that are on the streets drinking and getting arrested and taken home where their parents don't do anything... so it happens again and BAM criminal! Very reasonable if you think about it.

[puppieeyes223]

@xxsharonxxyo chinese torture? what? i didn't say anything about chinese torture. if hitting them doesn't do anything then why do it at all. like i said before, got to a prison and do a survey and see how many of them tell you that they been spanked. i promise over 98% of them will tell you they been spanked. the belt or hand does NOT influence kids choices 24 hours a day for the rest of their lives. so keep rolling your eyes, your logic is screwed up. i hope you don't have kids

[xxsharonxxyo]

@puppieeyes223 that made me roll my eyes... its hardly chinese torture, its a small smack on the bum. It most cases it probably doesnt even hurt. It just shocks you and makes you think twice about being naughty. Get over yourselves all of you. Like I said, if more parents started to discipline their kids properly maybe so many of them wouldn't grow up to be criminals with no respect for themselves... less alone other people.

[xxsharonxxyo]

@puppieeyes223 im not talking about full on abuse you moron, I ment a smack on the bum. Surely you cant tell me that is going to leave lasting psychological damage... If I ever did anything really bad thats what happened to me, it just taught me to respect my parents and be good. Go to any school now and do a survey on how many kids respect their parents who "explain" where they went wrong... Just look at all the druggie kids and teen pregnancies and tell me their parents can control them.

[puppieeyes223]

@xxsharonxxyo go to any prison and do a survery. i'm pretty sure over 90% of them got spanked as kids. spanking does NOT work. explaining where they went wrong lies the true discipline in kids. not fucking hitting them.

[puppieeyes223]

@CptQuestionMark you can discipline your kids. you can't hit them. hitting children is not discipline, it's punishment. why would you want your kids to be punished. punishment is for grown ass adults that harm society. not small innocent kids.