I’m not the perfect dad. I may let my baby eat a little too much junk, stay up late, hell even let her slide with a cuss word here and there. But I know how to punish my child without striking her. And most times a lot of parents confuse teaching opportunities with punishment. Every infraction doesn’t require physical discipline. Parents seem to forget the fact that children are ppl do and desire the same respect as an adult. Their minds are still developing, mistakes are going to be made. There is a serious lack of understanding and ego at play when it comes to some parents and the way they discipline their kids. They take a child’s behavior personal and bad behavior as an assault on their authority. When in reality it’s nithing like that. The kid is just being a kid.
Nothing wrong with a quick pop but to repeatedly strike your child and call it discipline is abuse in my book. Idgaf what anybody says. I used to get beat as a child and I didn’t grow up and say “those whoopings saved my life”. Nah. It was abuse then and I see it as abuse now. That spanking shit doesn’t build moral character. It just associates pain with mistakes.