Thread: Spanking vs Tough love

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One thing that is harder about not being physical with a punishment is that you have to get very creative to get your point across. Our three boys came out of foster care and due to their past we don't use the board of education on them even though I would love to from time to time. We did however find a loop hole in being physical. Pinches That works pretty good for our situation especially when you tell them " Your going to get pinched and hard too, come here and get it " You almost don't even have to pinch them anymore at that point In public a outburst leading them by the ears works well also. After any punishment we always make sure there is a hug afterwards, gotta make sure that they know that you love them.

Our Socialist Government in New Zealand has made any form of physical punishment illegal......to the detriment of kid's behaviour.
We were firm believers in a pat on the back for all our kids; often enough, hard enough, and low enough.
My five year old granson knows I can't spank him, and man does he play on it!
He's naughty for the sake of being naughty......the other day he ran through the shrubbery at the super-market car-park stomping on and ripping out everything he could.....and laughing at me when I tried to stop him.
When I finally got him into the car, and out of town, to hell with the do-gooders, I dragged him out of the car and cave him a couple of clips around the backside.
BUT..... if someone had seen me, I would certainly been in trouble with the law. But now he knows he can't push me too far!