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Dear GSoukup,

       I read your post. I understand what you believe, and I agree with you. I believe that corporal punishment should be stressed upon children, it only helps and teaches them that they cannot get away with everything. I believe that I am on your side of this argument, and I appreciate your post. I can get credit for schoolwork, and it goes with my topic I am researching on. This topic as you probably guessed is child discipline. I want to find people who have opinions based on this topic, and I would like to read and converse with these people.

       So I have chosen a topic for my English class. This topic is child discipline. I chose this topic because many people have used child discipline as child abuse. These two things are totally different and it irritates me when people say that hitting children as a way of punishment is abuse and should not be used. This is why there is an increase in problems in our society; lack of child discipline. "It does in fact mold the kid into what they might become." I totally agree with you, children need to be taught to understand that life isn't going to be a 'do whatever you want' type of thing. Anyway, I like that you pointed that out, it is important.

       "According to studies, majority population of criminals and violent adults are a product of not-so-good childhood and physical punishment is one thing that is hard for a child to forget as he grows up." FINALLY. Someone brings this up. They make parents seem like the criminals for being a little 'harsh' to children who misbehave. Why shouldn't they? That's what punishment is for. People get me upset when saying that corporal punishment is abuse. It really annoys me, why do they have to be so soft? Do they want their future generations to be problematic? I shouldn't think so, otherwise that would definitely not be good parenting.

       Thank you for posting about the topic, child discipline. It got me to think and I have someone I can agree with. Anyway, I would like to see more of these posts so I have more to write about and get credit for. Your post helped me a lot with my research as it is yet another opinion I can use in it. I appreciate it. Once again, thanks. I would like to see more of these posts if possible. Child discipline is a very important topic currently, especially since these kids will turn out to be people who will 'shape out' the world in the future.