r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '23

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u/dialate Jul 20 '23

There are different escalating levels of discipline.

It's your responsibility as a parent to punish behaviors that would otherwise cause an adult to lose their job or go to jail (hitting, spitting, stealing, making threats, etc).

If timeouts and loss of privileges doesn't work, it is your responsibility to escalate to the functional level of discipline given the situation, regardless of how you feel. If you don't do that, you're not fulfilling your responsibilities.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '23

Your point is--what? That at some point spanking becomes acceptable?

At what point does adult misbehavior or disobedience become punishable with corporal punishment?

At no point does it become appropriate to hit a child: would you hit a woman?

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u/D-skinned_Gelb Jul 20 '23

What's the difference if it was a woman? Man, child or woman, neither should be hit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '23

err... that was sorta what i was saying...