SPOONING!!!!

[mrsgee]

was just wondering what peoples views were of using a wooden spoon to discipline your child with?i have had a couple of people try to encourage me to use it with my dd.i would like to state very clearly that i do not agree with it and never have and never will use it as a form of discipline.was just wondering

you mean to hit them with? or some other discipline method?

I know if I was given one to cream eggs and butter together with my arm goes dead and that would be enough for me but defo not to hit with!!

no no no no no.....
my MIL kept a stick behind the kitchen door and threatened dh with it.. she even used it once.. hitting doesn't work

Am amazed people would suggest this! Archaic.

If you are talking about using it to hit your dd with, then I would say from personal experience that it bl**dy hurts. Who on earth is encouraging you to use it?

I am curious, if you are already against it why are you asking about it?

agree about the eggs and sugar does really ache. but no they genuinly mean to smack their child with.just cant imagine doing this no matter how naughty they are. naughty step works for my dd

i just wondered what others views were on this. the two people who are talking about it are of very different ages and i just hadnt come across it before

My granny used to threaten the wooden spoon a lot but never adtually used it. Ditto the sally rods she had growing in her garden!

my mil mentioned to my dd that as dh had been naughty he should get the wooden spoon,dd looked as me as if she was mad

Don't agree with it, EXCEPT as how used in Desperate Housewives "Choose your weapon" episode :)

someone younger than me uses it with her children!!

I have never heard of this before - I thought you were talking about a sleeping position! :o

That is so depressing MrsGee. I thought that it was a generational thing and that people really had stopped beating their children with implements.

I was beaten with whatever came to hand, including the wooden spoon and I have argued on here countless times how awful I think violence against children is.
I feel so angry that there are still people who think that walloping children with implements is acceptable. Makes me feel sick.

personally prefer my own space dh snores too much!!!!especially after quite e few beers:)

Hitting or threatening to hit a child with any form of implement is much closer to child abuse than I can possibly condone. It is cowardly abuse of power. My mother routinely caned me and my siblings when I was a child. As I got older (and bigger!), I threatened to report her to the authorities. No matter how much she did for me, this is one thing I will never forget or forgive her for.

wow. i cant believe people suggest that.

very sad :(

i just cant imagine using an implement to discipline my children.i was only ever smacked by my mum and once she came out in bruises on her hand where she had caught me wrong.

i just dont think this person will see it as a form of child abuse but as a way of bringing discipline to their children.

Mrsgee, I am afraid it is for people like that that we have to have anti-smacking laws