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dioxxys posted...

Spanking is fine as long as a parent isn't angry it doesn't cause permanent damage and they don't keep spanking them even when they're reaching their teens. If they understand well enough getting their video game taken away is good enough punishment then they don't need to be spanked

With my kids, I found a far more effective punishment was letting them keep their games...

...But I took the chargers away.

I would only give them their chargers back when they calmed down, apologised and at least pretended to know why what they did was bad.

However, I would never punish them with things like erasing their save data, that is just cruel and inhumane.

I have base saves that I literally spent over 100 hours making and I would go crazy if someone deleted it.

No dessert usually just ended up with them throwing a bigger tantrum and they just snuck out to the shops and bought something sweet with their pocket money, so flat out saying they couldn't have any was a pointless punishment to them.

Though in theory, I'm not against spanking or other forms of physical punishment, but there's quite a few factors going into for if it is or isn't an effective method.