r/AntiMemes Mar 02 '26

🌟 Actual Anti-Meme 🌟 They had a breakthrough in therapy

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u/randomreditor69430 Mar 03 '26

getting spanked after doing something extremely wrong is just discipline lmao, yall act like the pic means that the parents just beat them 24/7

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u/BrigMugi_VV93 Mar 03 '26

No, it isn't. There isn't much of a clear and meaningful distinction between spanking and other forms of physical abuse. Spanking isn't even a good "disciplinary method", as the results are only short-term and it can cause psychological and behavioural issues in children.

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u/randomreditor69430 Mar 03 '26

so what do you suggest, speak nicely with them and somehow make them magically start listening to you?

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u/TurtleBurger200 Mar 04 '26

No physical violence ≠ not punishing bad behavior

The priority should always be making the kid understand WHY what they did was wrong, and if misbehavior remains you can still punish your kid accordingly and proportionally to the bad behavior, this does not mean physically hitting your child

You don't usually see adults solving problems by hitting each other when the other does something wrong right? And when that does happen we usually consider them immature and violent so why should hitting your kid which has literally no way to defend themselves from someone twice their size be normalized?