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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Yet with the professionals I've seen, they have the most disruptive, undiciplined children I've ever had the displeasure to meet, despite knowing the techniques you mention, and more.
Accoding to your theories I should be a violent person, and historically, society would consist nearly entirely of extremely violent people as they were brought up having/witnessing the cane being used at school.
But that isn't the case.
Children know a slap is punishment for something they've done which they shouldn't have done, they don't associate it with violence.
It teaches them that if someone does something wrong, they should be punished, the core of Justice.
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You cannot deny that smacking is violence whatever level you want to categorise it as. You learned it from your parents. Your parents learned it from their parents...ad infinitum.
Young children don't really have a handle on the concept of absolute justice as you or I know it. They learn that a slap not only hurts them but is also used to get things done your way and they will happily employ this technique themselves against other children. What happens when they get caught inflicting violence? They get another slap. And on and on we go.
Breaking the cycle is diffcult. I think we are in a transition our history and if we just give in and resort back to ye ole smack then we are not advancing ourselves, our children, our children's children etc.