Bare Bottom Spanking For Corporal Punishment: Is It Right?
Parents often feel that punishing a child for any mistake they commit. In fact, the severity of punishment increases for grave mistakes. One such method of punishment followed by American parents is bare bottom spanking.
If you ask any random person about receiving bare bottom spanking, they would certainly say yes. This kind of punishment is quite common. However, it is controversial in nature. Controversy about bare bottom spanking has been here for years.
Some people speak in favor while others simply say that it should be stopped. People have their own reasons to back their opinion.
People have been heard saying that punishment of such kind works for parents. It is usually for the betterment of children. Once punished, children usually do not engage in kind of activities they were punished for. In fact, many people confirm having received this kind of punishment and would even use it for their children.
However, many individuals who have received this kind of punishment simply feel humiliated with the experience, especially on receiving this punishment in their pre-teens. Bared bottom in front of parents feels humiliating and embarrassing. They advocate that the practice should end.
The controversy is gaining immense limelight in today’s world. Christian groups who believe in disciplining their children based on Biblical passages have divided on this topic. Striking an unruly child is fine, but not on bare bottom.
However, much of the Bible’s instructions are to discipline adults. Actual biblical approach is completely different from what adults now follow. First of all, adults must give away those wayward ways and live according to biblical principles before they disciple others.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you're going to be bothered spanking a child, especially over your lap, it only makes sense that the spanking should be given on the bare bottom. Otherwise, why go to the trouble of spanking at all if you're going to undermine its deterrent effectiveness from the outset?
ReplyDeleteSpanking a naughty child on the bare bottom establishes the disciplinary response as a punishment meant to be taken seriously. Thereafter, the very threat of such an act carries that much more weight as a no-nonsense reprimand. I suggest you either believe in spanking or you don't. And if you do, why would you not wish to see exactly what you're doing as you spank?
I do feel a child's spankings should be privately given. All the more reason to spank the bare bottom. The prevailing understanding between parent and child should be that a spanking is a spanking. If the unhappy youngster feels put upon that much, the choice was always theirs to either behave or be spanked. Having their pants taken down is then just part and parcel of the consequence to their particular choice.
The physical effects of a bare bottom spanking - the warming and reddening of the upturned backside - are quite able to be monitored as the spanking proceeds. All squirming and crying aside, punishment deserved is going to be given. But when care is taken to restrict the smacking to the bottom itself, and perhaps to the very tops of the thighs, the appropriately shamed child need never experience anything more than transient discomfort.
ReplyDeleteBaring the bottom takes all the guesswork out of determining the ongoing spanking's effectiveness. The sharpened sting of the smacks, whether given with palm, paddle or strap, is all the more apparent with a bare bottom. At most, a moderate blushing of the backside suggests enough of a sound spanking to meet the disciplinary aims of the exercise. Anything more to the punishment, by way of the child being stood in the corner or put to bed, is entirely at the parent's discretion.
In any case, the child's naughtiness mandated a proper correction. Accordingly, there was nothing in the spanking of the miscreant's bare bottom to keep the book from being satisfyingly closed on a fundamental homage to Actions & Consequences. Quite simply, arguing against bare bottom spankings for misbehaving children is nothing short of disrespecting Mother Nature.
If I'd been stood before my mother at age 14 while she pulled down my pants for a bare bottom spanking across her knee, I'm sure I would've regretted whatever naughtiness had brought me such a thoroughly shaming ordeal. But that's the whole point of giving proper, pants-down spankings to disobedient children. Even at 14, I would've had to accept that I was still accountable for my behaviour.
ReplyDeleteReasoning with a young miscreant is often put forward as the best approach to teaching them right from wrong. Perhaps, but reasoning figures to be that much easier when they've only just had their bare bottom soundly spanked. When I think of how I misbehaved in my teens - playing with matches, making nuisance phone calls to a radio station's phone-in show, stealing a book from an Arts & Crafts shop - very possibly just one or two good bare bottom spankings would've pulled the plug on my impulsive naughtiness.
What you want to do in punishing a child is to correct this notion that they can misbehave with no accountability. no one to answer to, for their naughtiness. Taking their pants down for an over-the-knee, bare bottom spanking effectively dismantles the autonomous castle of which they are no longer the monarch.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing to say that the actual baring of the backside can't be put off until the child is positioned across the parental lap. The spanking may even have begun with smacking over the underpants before the last vestige of modesty is put aside, and the helpless bumcheeks are almost theatrically laid bare for serious spanking. After all, a bare bottom spanking is nothing if not seriously intended. Spanking on the bare bum is literally about 'getting to the bottom' of the child's mischief making.
A bare bottom spanking follows the straightest path between the disobedient act and its unhappy consequence. There's nothing the least bit unnatural about the child-rearing transition from tenderly patting an infant's bare behind to smartly smacking it as they grow older and naughtier.