How we manage to raise our children without beating them? (Here I'll just add a note: I'm allmost 18, and have never been close to sellp with a girl, so I'm very far away from being a parent.) Well, as I see it, beating your children is a short cut to getting them to obey you. It's much simpler to beat your child if he does something wrong and then tell him you'll do it again if he/she does it again than teaching him that doing that thing is wrong.
Well, if you just smack your kids and say "NO!" than that isn't a good idea. My parents did a combination of the two methods you mentioned. They explaind why something was wrong, such as stealing, and if I continued to do it anyway, then I got smacked.
I think timeouts don't accomplish much, and as a future teacher, I hate the fact that more and more parents are handcuffing school officials when it comes to disciplining students.
