Where u spanked as a child? Do u feel it has impacted your life as an adult?

Yes, I was spanked by both parents from my earliest memories until I was 24 and finished with college.

Yes, in a very positive way. It was a very effective way to help learn to behave properly, and that has carried over into adulthood. It was also a very effective tool for motivating me and helping me to focus, also carried over to the present. I'm 48 years old.

Yes I was spanked as a child. It taught me to never use it on my children. Spanking and other forms of punishment are gratifying for parents because they provide immediate relief, but the negative and long term effects are not worth it. Spanking/punishment can cause the child to feel withdrawn from the abuser, and to avoid them as well. Spanking also creates feelings of aggression and frustration in the child. Children also learn from their "role models" so children might hit other children at school or siblings at home. I fully believe there are other ways to discipline children that work more effectively than spanking. Although, I suppose to answer your question, the only way it has impacted my life as an adult is that I never want to inflict that on my children, as well as I still carry some negative feelings towards my parents for doing so.

I was spanked as a child, and I feel that it didn´t scar me for life. I see spanking as an appropriate punishment for rebellious behaviors. I know with little kids, they aren´t really rebelling, but right now the word I want is not coming. Also, after a certain age, it becomes to degrading to spank a child. I would recommend stopping after about 7 or 8, like someone has already mentioned. At that point, kids seem to have a better grasp of right and wrong, and if they´re still defying you, then other forms of punishment are appropriate.

Now, when I say that spanking is appropriate, I don´t mean beating the crap out of your kid, or just spanking them because they refused to eat their vegetables. I´ve seen that result: It´s ugly, and it hurts those children mentally and their parents as well. The chances for a good relationship decrease a lot once abuse comes into the picture. It is very hard to learn to trust someone who hurt you physically, or emotionally.

Yes, I was spanked and because of it, I made it to medical school and became a doctor. Did I like it.. no, but it was the fear of the rod that made me go to school everyday and furthermore ensure that I never obtained a mark below the cut off point for spanking. Initially, that was the only reason I did well at school. As I matured, I realized that I was capable of achieving well leading to the sustained pursuit of greater things. I was a very lazy child and loved sleeping very much (still do) and one can only guess what could have happened had the rod been spared on me.

I don't suppose they don't have an impact on you! I'm only 14 however i might nonetheless have reminiscences of my little brothers being spanked when I was about 9ish and i would just watch motive I didn't have the courage to do some thing then! I suppose i can have an impact on you afterward in life. I don't particularly comprehend the right way to stop them i attempt to just think of it being in the past or distract myself with something else.

I was spanked, and I think it had a positive impact on my life. I graduated from high school, have never been arrested, never did drugs, never stole, went to college and had three great children. My parents always let me know why I had been spanked after. I think that is what parents need to understand.

Yes I was spanked as a child and I don't think it impacted my life in a negative way I think if anything it made me afraid to behave badly. However not all children are this way. My daughter for example does not respond the same way. If I even raise my voice to her she freaks out. Some kids need firm reasoning and time outs but I thinks some kids need a swat on the butt from time to time (Only in extreme cases!!) to remind them they need to behave.

Spanked or abused?

I was both, and I did a little of both until I stopped myself and then got my hormones clear.

It is horrifying to be slapped in the face and yelled at by a crazy person, and to be that (hormonally) crazy person!

It is FINE to spank a child, under the age of reason (classically, seven years old), because there just isn't any reasoning with the brain of a little one!

Yes I was spanked as a child,but not abused. It was a forum of punishment and discipline,and I learned well from it.

Yes...I was spanked.( read...crap beat out of me)

Yes...it impacted my life by teaching me that the way to settle problems is through the use of violence.

Without therapy, I would have perpetuated this on my own children. Through Gods grace, this did not happen.