Well, perzactly … I guess.
Yeah, but I have seen it in science threads or car threads, “I learned something.” will sometimes be seen.
A thread like this? Not so much… 
I am curious. If you spank your kids, are you the only one that is allowed to do so? Is it okay for teachers, baby-sitters, friends or neighbors to spank your kids?
We never spanked either of our daughters and they turned out fine. 
I recall that they were well supervised around hot stoves etc. until they were old enough to understand the danger.
I’m confused, aren’t you giving a spanking for willfully disobeying your instructions to (I assume) not climb out the window? Not sure how that jives with your claim that you don’t spank for disagreement or disobedience.
Yeah, threads like this are impossible. People will not have a nuanced discussion.
The nice thing is that after another dozen pages of the same points being repeated again and again, the font size will increase, words will become underlined in bold and red.
In the meantime, what do you think about babies and restaurants? On airplanes? Changing diapers on airplanes during the meal service while the baby is crying?
Babies at night: Let them cry it out? Good for the babies or evil?
Breast feeding or formula?
Working mothers or stay at home?
I’ll bring the popcorn.
Yeah, but I don’t think we should avoid blame here. It’s not the people who spank who get all righteously indignant and start spoiling for fights. How exactly can you have a conversation about the subject with someone who thinks you must be a horrible person if you spank? Or if they throw out hostility towards you every time you try to explain yourself?
At least the first 4 replies were decent. Probably a record.
No, like he already said, the kid is getting spanked for doing something unsafe that could cause him harm.
Multiple posts in this thread consist of you being disingenuous. If you actually want to try and have a conversation, actually stop and read what’s been said.
MULTIPLE posts? I’m not sure I agree with your characterization of this ONE post as being disingenuous. I surely do not see how any of my other posts are. Perhaps you’d like to point them out?
I’ve not strayed from my opinion that children should not be struck, whether a light smack on the rear, a spanking, a switch, or anything else. It astounds me the length that people will go to justify hitting a small, defenseless child.
The dissonance in this post is astounding.
That said, your premise fails. My father spanked me, even hit me with a belt a couple of times. I don’t think he was a “horrible person”, but at the same time I don’t think spanking or belting me was particularly effective in changing any of my behavior.
My dad hit me because his dad hit him, he used the tools he knew. I was also the first child to young parents, so my dad had less life experience to draw from.
I’m trying the “not hitting my kid” method, and so far it’s working for me.