Discipline: to Spank or Not to Spank?

Before anyone start judging parents cause they spanked their children, they need to step up and give a helping hand to give advice on helping them keep their children in line. Just because a parent spanked their children, does NOT mean they are abusive or it's bad parenting. My mother have raised 6 children basically by herself and spanking wasn't what we got until last. And if, when we going to get a spanking and we ran from her, we got spanked twice.

There are some people that judges how a parent should teach and raise there children, before even being a parent themselves or haven't been a parent for longer than 4-8 years and only ONE child. I, myself have one child, he's 3 years old but I have been around MANY children(family and friends) and basically helped raised them for the first few years, so therefore, I do understand when spanking is needed after all other things have been tried and its still a no go.

I am against spanking a child when they are babies, or are too young to know better - that's NO reason to spanked a child that young! My boy, have never had a spanking until he was 3 years old, and that time, only had one due to the fact the other disciplines did not work. If I sit him down by himself and tell him to stay sitted, he got worse and start throwing things, then I take his toys away and he seems to find a remote control to throw or knock something off the coffee table.

I know some parents that does not spanked there children until last and even then, they try not to spank even after all the things they have done. They basically let there children run all over them without a word, let the child tell them what to do, what not to do, where to go, where not to go and that they aren't going to do this or that. Now that isn't raising a child, that's a CHILD raising YOU.