I prefer to challenge them...

... to a DU-D-D... D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DUEL!!!

i think the kid would grow up with the reasoning of solving problems with physicaly attacking others.
i'm also against verbal insult to a child.

there's lots of good ways to educate a child if the parents only took the time to explore them.

SPANKINGS

I prefer to challenge them...

Ya know, I actually thought "too a duel" before I even scrolled down. XD

Anyway, I dont think there's harm in a little spanking is yourr kids being a little prick.
  

A little tap dance in the heated copper plimsoles never hurt anybody.

How else are they going to go on So you think you can dance and make me millions? *Folds arms*

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Speaking as someone who works at Target, I see a number of these whining, spoiled rotten little brats everyday. Granted, I wouldn't go off and do something like what that guy did above, but to me, "no" means "no". While I was no perfect angel, I was raised to work hard to get what I want. If I ended up as a spoiled little monster, my parents would slap me silly (spanking was very common for my younger years). So to see crying kids begging for a slushee and their parents relenting just to get them to quiet down disappoints me.

But what do I know? I'm not a parent.

the point is not making them stay quite but teaching them how wrong it is to be loud, troublesome......and that being greedy is bad.
oh my, greedy kids will be very hard to raise..... i hope i never have greedy kids.

Kids are only "greedy" if you continue to buckle and give them what they want. If you actually act like a parent your kids will be fine.

i saw this episode on dr.phill where this little 4 yearold weighed something like 80lbs or something.. she was very greedy with food. her mother really tried to not give her but the cries of that baby was so heart breaking, i'd give her what she wants if i were the mother.. i really cant stand seeing a baby cry so hard like that. she's a baby!

that's why i wish i dont get a greedy kid cause its very hard to raise them.

The point I was trying to make is that greediness is not a trait, it's something you learn.

For a more serious reply than I have added in a good while, which shows how stong this rum I have merely scented is, I am actually an advocate of physical punishment for children. Not in large, or powerful amounts obviously, those who beat have taken it too far. Horrifically so.

I'm talking about a short, sharp, but gentle shock. When children have done something they really shouldn't do, I think it's a good idea. It's not painful for a long time, but it's of putting. Combining that with rewards for good behaviours is a simple way to build a decent, acceptable moral structure. Neither has to be over the top, but a little tiny bit of disciplene when young goes a long, long way.

Well... I think I'd try to us punishments that showed them the consequences of their actions and since most things don't result in you getting the beat snot of you I don't think I'd take that route often if at all. Children have simple minds. We don't really come into this knowledge knowing anything. They want something and they go after it. They don't know that their hurting little Stephanie's feelings by not giving her back her doll. So... if you take something of theirs they should know she feels, right? Ideally, this should make them associate taking things with the suffering of the people they're stealing from. Of course, this depends on them be

I don't think just hitting them regardless of they did has the same effect. They'll just be like "Oh, if they find out about this they're going to beat the crap out of me." They're more concerned about the pain that usually ensues than what pain/suffering/whatever they're causing

The point I was trying to make is that greediness is not a trait, it's
something you learn.

I disagree. I think greed is a thing we're born with and that self-control is the thing yo have to learn. I mean, like, imagine you're a baby again. All you've had all your life is bland, yet vaguely sickly-sweet fruit flavored mush and then someone gives you a piece of cake. You're going to eat that ##%! up, literally.

So... when you don't cave in and give them what they want all the damn time they're FORCED to learn self-control. So... I think it's the other way around.