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I'm so sorry you took what I said so offensively. I must have put my foot in my mouth. It is just that what you said were common things that people say about spanking as listed on the site I posted. If you hadn't said that you cried more than your baby did for being spanked for the first time, I wouldn't have thought that you didn't want to do it, and I would have said nothing. I said that I wasn't trying to judge anyone. I just wanted to explain my beliefs on the situation which I think are valid and make sense. Like I said, I posted this thread for support and validation of how I'm choosing to raise my son. I posted this thread for the support, because we all recieve bad and unwanted advice on how to parent from someone in our lives. I was not looking for advice. Nothing anyone told me was going to make me think maybe I was wrong, maybe I should spank my kids. I was not trying to say that you are a bad parent or that your kids are bad. I'm sorry I have a strong opinion about corporal punishment and I may see it as abuse, because I was terribly abused with "discipline" as an excuse. In my original post, I said that I may not see the difference. But still, my opinion and beliefs remain and I hope that someday soon the U.S. will ban this type of punishment from being used in homes, like 25 other countries already have starting in 1979. I am sorry. I didn't want to make you feel attacked or unsupported. That is not what PC is for.
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"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -Mother Teresa ![]() "Respect is love in plain clothes” -Frankie Byrne “Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.” - Elie Wiesel “Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.” - Elie Wiesel "And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up, Keep ya head up, oooo child things are gonna get easier, ooooo child things are gonna get brighter" - Keep Ya Head Up by Tupac Shakur |
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Sounds like you are doing a good job with the time outs and reinforcing words... keep it up and remember the old say "Parenting Isn't for Cowards" - every parent will learn this at some time or another over the eighteen plus years they give to their child.
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Shadow you and I have already pmed, but I still wanted to apologize publically for being so sensitive and defensive. We are both parents in a difficult situation trying our best. I was trying to be supportive and show if used properly it isn't damaging but I guess I sounded judgemental I didn't mean to. And I'm sorry I took your response so defensively and responded in anger. All I meant iss childern should be treated as childern but taught boundries that's our jobs as parents.
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It's okay to be defensive and angry. I can understand where you're coming from. Thank you for your apology.
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"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -Mother Teresa ![]() "Respect is love in plain clothes” -Frankie Byrne “Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.” - Elie Wiesel “Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.” - Elie Wiesel "And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up, Keep ya head up, oooo child things are gonna get easier, ooooo child things are gonna get brighter" - Keep Ya Head Up by Tupac Shakur |
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