Redneckerz
Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
That's a corrective tap for you. Glad you didn't retract your accusation, by the way. Classy. Especially when i haven't reiterated my personal stance on this.If you mean nothing else but touching the child to get its attention then yes, this is not child abuse, but neither is it corporal punishment nor is it corrective beyond correcting the focus of attention.
I don't know, i had this strange assumption that explaining the difference and even giving it an alternative name to specify the difference would be more than enough to make up for it. Ofcourse, i was not prepared for the situation where i had to be absolutely literal on everything here or it just gets misinterpreted (Even though it was quite obvious that i was making a difference, but alas)When talking about the topic of corporal punishment, what sense does it make to bring up touching your child to bring its attention to you? That's just absurd and considering the specific examples discussed, e.g. spanking the butt, we are clearly talking corporal punishment and my sole claim is that all forms of corporal punishment are child abuse.
Yeah, but that's not what i was talking about.touching your child to get its attention, even if you want to then go on and punish it (in any way) is not corporal punishment (though if you punish it in a corporal way after getting the attention, that part is of course child abuse.
Because in a later post he referred to spanking the butt, which is an outdated mechanism, but its something of a lesser (Relatively) evil than full on hitting what he previously referred to. Therefore i had to present this view as it seemed to me the user was not aware of the implications of his words.Since we were talking about a poster who specifically gave the examples of spanking the butt and hitting with a flat hand and you insinuated the user may just mean a corrective tap by this,
Its an outdated mechanic, yes.you go even further and call the example of bum slapping yourself:
That's child abuse and is not a good way of getting attention.
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