tsk tsk. Johnny, Mel, children please. Behave or I'll have to bust out 'ol' stinger' [img]tongue.gif[/img] I promise to leave no bruises though, and buttocks only.
Seriously though, I'd reserve the old butt-whack only for when the child themself commits a violent transgression. Teach that violence begets violence, and there will always be someone bigger that can hit harder, thus it's better to pursue different methods of getting what they want [img]smile.gif[/img] You could say it's hypocritical to punish violence with more violence, but it's not the violence itself that I find abhorrant, it's the impulse to be
the first to resort to violence that would need to be stamped out. Now, maybe the child will merely take the lesson that 'I just need to make sure I'm the biggest when I use violence', but hey, that's up to them [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 08-12-2003, 07:59 AM: Message edited by: The Hierophant ]