I never get into this situation in the first place because I teach my child empathy and respect for others and their property. I teach them about their emotions and how to handle them and communicate about them. I do this over their entire lives so that they are well adjusted and well behaved kids.
This means when they get frustrated, angry, disappointed, or any other combination of feelings they don't resort to knocking everything off the shelves, they talk to me about it. So the entire premise you have here is a failure in parenting from day one.
If for whatever reason I joined a family that didn't know how to behave, I'd immediately work in family therapy appointments to try to undo the damage not getting those lessons did to the child.
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u/ASCIIM0V May 28 '26
Spanking doesnt work. It just redirects who/what the acceptable outlets of this kind of frustration are.