Is it normal for a parent (s) who was spanked to spank their children

Spanking IS abuse. It's just minor and legalized. No one should hit their kid for ANY reason as it hurts them emotionally and teaching them that's it's okay to hit someone if they don't do what they say.

SPANKING IS ABUSIVE and it HURTS kids (phychologically). We should get it outlawed.

DON'T SPANK YOUR KIDS. >:(

It is your chosen way; Any form of physical hitting, beating especially spanking the bottoms of children up to 18 is regarded by the experts as physical abuse: Your right as a parent to choose to relate right and wrong to your child is A slap, 5-10 min standing in a corner spanking: I would not be that complacent like ha ha ha spanking is not abuse: Statestic's show spanking is a huge form of Abuse used for years by institutions and families to instil fear into the child up to 18. It is humiliating and degrading depending the age of the child which is up to 18 years. any form of physical punishment is abuse:

As far as I am concerned, it is abuse. Nothing can change my mind. I got spanked for sexual reasons, not for discipline. I'm over it. I have seen it used under normal situations and it never worked. The child still misbehaved. There have to be better methods out there to discipline a child.

Seriously why do you want to physically hurt your child - and that is what spanking is, it's not tickling is it? The point is you are giving them physical pain so they can remember and be scared not to do whatever it was again. Can't you just grow up and talk to your child? Or put them in the corner, not give then a treat etc with an explanation and afterwards make up, and even apologise yourself but say its the only way you have to show them right from wrong etc,

HAHAHA HAHAHA...spanking is not abuse ...like thats kind of insulting to people who have actually been abused.

I spank my child depending on what she has done...a warning...standing in a corner for 5-10min...a slap on the hand...spanking are all forms of punishment I use.

I find when a child is younger you do not have to hit them hard at all...they get scared and a light spanking is all thats needed.

I do not see anything wrong with spanking as a form of punishment, as long as it is done for the right reasons and properly.
It should never be done in anger, in public or as stress relief for the parent. It is something that should be contemplated, "Wait till you dad gets home...", mulled over and dreaded. At no time would 'a beating' be a spanking.
Children need limits and discipline. Parents who provide neither are child abusers, just as much as those who beat their children, in my opinion.

How right you are In my experience only a small percent of parents spank thier children nowadays: yes you are perfectly right these majority have found a better way of helping their children know when they have steeped over the boundary line of bad behavior: making for more understanding between parent and child: Fear was a small part of the beating or spanking it was how sore my bottom was going to be left depending on the lenght of the beating yes a good observation happier familiies without the wooden spoon paddle cane

Just because it's normal doesn't make it right. I hate parents who do it. It's just mean, and the parents who do it are too lazy to tell their kids why it's wrong to do whatever they do. The kid just end up being afraid of the parent, and grows up thinking that abuse is okay.

I've been spanked by my parents, and even they are now questioning whether it was appropriate punishment or not. I never acted out or purposefully broke the rules as a child. I was what you'd call a "Goody Two Shoes". However, I'm not sure I can attribute that to being spanked.

Just to be on the safe side I've decided not to spank my future children, just provide them with a very strict, structured and happy upbringing (at least to the best of my ability), take away privileges when they act out, praise them when they succeed, and constantly remind them that I love them.

Both my parents were spanked/ hit as children as punishment for misbehaving.

My mother used to hit me with this thing called a 'rotan' (which is basically a long bamboo stick about the thickness of your thumb) and one time it broke so she used a metal hanger instead....But my father never laid a hand on my brothers or I. Could be a mix of upbringing and their personal beliefs.

I know that I would never hit my children if I ever have any, even though I was beaten as a child. So take that as you will.

It's normal. Also spanking is not abuse, assuming the parent isn't beating the living heck out of the kid...
But I feel that spanking is a necessary part of child development. Your child does something bad, confront them verbally. If they backtalk, then spank them a few times.
It's about discipline and respect. If you let your children do whatever they want, without any fear of repercussions, then they know you won't do anything.
Break a vase? Smash the tv? Bully someone? "It's ok, mommy loves you, you didn't mean it"

And that ^ type of parenting usually makes children spoiled, arrogant, undisciplined.
So yes, in my mind, spanking should be there and should be implemented if words didn't work. Naturally the spanking thing works only with smaller children. You can't really spank a 16-17 year old can you? It's embarrassing for both sides. Then things get more complicated.

First off spanking your child as discipline is punishment not abuse. I really doubt if your parents did this as discipline they meant to abuse you. So the fact you are trying to act like you were all abused now is pretty stupid.

Second I think there was a lot of kids who were in my old middle school who needed a good whooping from an adult. They would try to pick fights with me but I think they would have stopped if their parents beat the shit out them. In fact there was a kid always in trouble at school. Said he would not stop bullying people unless his dad decided to beat him. He said not his mom though since his mother was a worthless bitch since shes a woman and women mean nothing. So men should treat them like crap. This was a 10 year old boy as well. In middle school. I really think it would be better if we just sent some of these people to the sun.

Some people do not simply learn from words though. As well as that just because you discipline your child does not mean other parents do. So I think some form of physical discipline should be allowed in schools.

If a child fears getting beat by an adult they are not going to waist time beating other children. This also creates a common enemy among children. However I also dont agree with lazy but overly strict/abusive teachers.

It is an age old issue to spank or not to spank: while it was normal back the years when no one questioned the other why do you physically beat your children: especially when the punishing was a male or Father figure thing: Judgeing on the re-actions it is now generally accepted that it is abuse and wrong: We all know that loving families are still in the majority from those bygone days of spanking: The percent is smaller wth those who were abused in the spanking because there was no love there and it was cruel: In my generation the belief it was okay, it did me no harm, sadly in that small percent it was abuse. judgeing on Is it normal re-actions I with the many accept it is abuse to hit beat a child under 18.

Of course it is.

Well having been spanked and beaten on the bottom I now accept and value the experts who say it is abuse: it is embarassing, humiliating to slap/spank a small child: very unfair to the vunerable child: Sadly if all parents were perfect then what you suggest might be an option: I have experienced parents at the wits end when the modern child knows his/her rights and know being beaten is he/she being abused: So other methods have to be learned to assist the child to behave as all good children do: I am sure you know many who agree with you as I do have many who agree with me:

The abuse aspect I don't give a shit about, throw your child under a bus for all I care however smacking is a good way to train a dog, not teach a child.

My parents rarely hit me, and never once I was over the age of 8 or so. I did spank my son when he was little (I also slapped him a few times which I feel really bad about). Most of it wasn't because his behavior was that bad but because I had mental issues and didn't know how to react...
I am better now and I try not to hit him at all, if he did something really awful like harmed another child or said "fuck you" to my face I would probably hit him.
I think if you hit your kid you should not be leaving marks or doing it to hurt them, shock is more the idea and to show how serious the issue is. If you spank them every day they wont care anymore.