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Whitechocolate:
I don't plan on hitting my daughter in order to discipline her. I don't believe "time out" actually works unless you are correcting whatever wrong the child did. I think children need to be talked to. Not screamed at or hit. What do you really learn besides fear and anger towards the parent? If a child can't trust their parent to listen to them and teach them then what kind of person do they turn out to be? I've been doing a lot of reading on parenting and discipline and while you can't go by what a book tells you, it has opened my mind to different things.
I was hit quite often when I was little and you're right, I turned out just fine. But I don't think I really learned any lesson besides don't get caught. I would second guess telling my parents when I did something for fear of getting punished for it. I saw my father as not much else but a disciplinarian and the guy that gave me money. This is probably why I have so many issues with him now. I don't want to make the same mistakes with my children.
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