Pope said it's OK to spank children at home

I've worked in five primary, nine secondary, one special needs', and two tutorial schools.

I have taught pupils who kept shouting in class, who walked around all the time in class, who kept throwing rubber bands towards each other and the teachers in class, who kept throwing rulers and all sorts of stuff out the window, who talked back always, who picked up chairs and threw at each other.

Never once did I need to physically smack them to make them behave and stop those behaviour, and every time they changed and behaved after a few weeks at most. It's about building a good rapport and a desirable learning attitude.

Smacking them only prove to them that violence is the answer, and not only that, but that normal people in our day-to-day life uses it to solve problems.

Smacking a child is horrible. You shouldn't be having children if you think that is acceptable.
Condoning the use of violence to get someone to obey is the problem with society. You can't promote a peaceful society based on voluntary cooperation free from violence while still condoning violence against children.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-belkin/spanking-is-wrong_b_1659964.html

For some reason behavior that isn't acceptable to dish out on your fellow adults becomes perfectly fine when it is taken out on defenseless children

The current pope has been saying too much good progressive (by pope standards) stuff for far too long. It's about time he said something like this.

Lol I'm sorry; I was willing to accept your opinion wholly but that is the dumbest thing I've ever read. How the hell would being smacked effect how intelligent I turned out? Answer- it wouldn't.

I don't know why people care what this guy has to say, but I do agree you should be able to hit kids. As long as you know the difference between punishing them and abusing them.

People who hit their child do it to cause the child pain so they associate that pain with a certain action in the hope that they won't do it again, that is basically torture! how would you like it if every time you made a mistake at work your boss punched you in the back of the head? yes you wouldn't so why do you think it's acceptable to do it to a child who can't defend themselves?

A parent that has to rely on causing their child pain to make them behave is just a terrible parent it's as simple as that, it's easy to discipline and raise a child correctly without having to rely on hitting them, my parents never once hit me yet they still instilled discipline in me.

That's great, but looking after children for a while is not the same as having them all the time. Smacking isn't ideal, but people aren't perfect and a smack is very different from beating the child up.

Of course its ok, I agree with him and will spank my own children.

Having one child to take care of is a lot easier than taking care of 30 in a room, or 1000 in the playground.

This is of course also ignoring the fact that children spend almost nine hours in schools, sometimes even more, every day; whilst parents, especially working ones and those who put them in childcare of their grandparents'/relatives', see them few hours, especially when you consider the fact that most of those hours are sleeping hours.

There are no excuses. On top of these experiences, I also have had lots of experiences with emotionally difficult children from very difficult backgrounds in different years, as well as a younger brother (a decade younger) to take care of at home. And I don't even come from a difficult background myself so it's not that I was born into it or anything.

If I can do it, anyone can do it. Even you and Franky.

You are incredibly arrogant. A teacher can hand the children back - parents often feel trapped and many are dealing with very difficult issues.

I'm so incredibly arrogant I don't think I can do something not everybody else could.

Spanking does not cause harm and is not the same thing as physical abuse. My mum was spanked and she turned out to be an amazing mother because of it. I get spanked too and lord knows if my parents just gave me the verbal spanking I would be a brat no one would want to associate themselves with.

I'm so incredibly arrogant I don't think I can do something not everybody else could.

You might not be arrogant, but has anybody ever told you that you're incredibly sarcastic?

Another evidence showing that being spanked lead to someone spanking other people as well.

There's no way of knowing if your mother was an amazing mother because of having been spanked; perhaps she could be even better. And quite obviously so.

At the same time, you cannot say you would be a brat if they hadn't spanked you. You still seem like one; and in any case, could have been an even better person.

You don't have an argument. Neither of your interpretations of the cases could be considered facts.

His Holiness is not having children, even though some of the former popes did have.

He's right. It did no harm to me and the millions of other children who were disciplined in the same way. There is a difference between violence and using it as discipline imo.

So when you use it for discipline, it's no longer violence?

I think you're very naughty, would you like to come over and let me spank you?

So when you use it for discipline, it's no longer violence?

I think you're very naughty, would you like to come over and let me spank you?

You're avoiding my earlier question: Where did you get the feeling that I seem like a brat?

I feel that way, yeah. I don't feel like my parents were ever violent with me. They smacked me when I was clearly in the wrong. If they smacked me for no reason, other than because they could, yeah, that would have been child abuse.

It doesn't really work with adults.