How do you punish your child? Do you hit? Do you Time-Out? I sometimes give a swift hit on the butt if it is serious, and a time-out if he is throwing a Tempertantrum.

I spanked, although my wife hated it. They are alright now.

I don't plan to hit my children. There are other ways to punish them without causing them physical pain. Time outs, and taking away priviledges will be things I will do.

I use time outs, and I take away toys they like a lot. Works pretty well

If you've ever watched that tv show Supernanny, Jo has some good ideas about punishment for children. She'll usually have a certain chair or spot where the child has to go for timeout when they've misbehaved. You have to get down to their level, tell them why they're being punished, and make them stay in that place for one minute for each year of their age. Then you come back, explain once again why they've been punished, and ask them to apologize. Her methods seem to work on TV, so I plan to use them. In fact, I may purchase previous seasons on DVD if they're available so I can really learn from them before the twins reach that age.

You know I keep thinking about the Super Nanny. I wonder if she says, "I'm not a real nanny, I just play one on TV." She may have some good ideas, but I think that depending on your child all her suggestions may not work.

I was spanked, but that was after all the usually techniques were used and I just wasn't getting the idea. I know that if the question of "Do you spank your kids?" came up in a large group of parents, you'd see the room split on the subject.

I do know that I've seen some parents hit their kids out in public and I know that is so wrong. If I was being a holy terror out in public, one of my parents would squat down, with a serious look on their face, eye contact, and very quietly tell me that when we got home I was going to get sent to my room after I was spanked. Just the tone of their voice was enough to tell me that I was going to get it and I was busted.

You have to be consistent in what you say and do with your kids. They do eventually get it.

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Ya know, I always thought that parents should take a class in how to punish the children. I know that there are some parents that are children themselves and they still need to be disciplined, but it different when the child is your own.

I took parenting classes after my kids were born. It was with a kids play group. We learned a lot and were able to pass on tips back and forth between each other. Did my kids match any of the textbook examples? Well, maybe and some of the suggestions worked, but I did spank. It was usually after I had tried the time outs, the priviledge removal, no TV, corners. Sometimes a spanking would work.

I have a one year old baby girl. seeing as she is young my wife and I have yet to really punish her. Hopefully she wont give us a reason to in the future.

I haven't really even punished yet. I think we will mainly do time outs, and maybe a swift, soft hit on the butt.

DH and I both planned to spank since we were spanked. Spanking is controlled and different than hitting. But now that we're going to be foster parents, we will not be using any corporal punishment at all and will have to find another way.