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Spanking is NOT violence.

Why should I even have to SAY that?! This is just a clever argument designed to cancel any potential disagreement. It is fallacious, though. Is ''violence'' simply the act of one person physically inflicting pain on another? What about a car accident? Is that an act of violence? What about hernia surgery? Or a hernia EXAM for that matter! (Naw, THAT'S some violence!)

A spanking is no more an act of violence than these occurrences.

And frankly, I don't appreciate a shackin', no-children-havin', feminist, Universalist, New Age, talk show host tellin' me how to raise my children in my Christian household!!

Raise YOUR kids as you see fit. I will do the same. If YOU want kids who defy you, yell at you, disobey you, that's fine. Mine won't do those things. Twice. I will not accept the label of ''abuser'' because I choose to use a perfectly Godly method of discipline when necessary. Doing too little is as bad as doing too much. I suggest that one who is excessively liberal in dealing with his children is just as much an abuser as the parent who truly DOES beat his offspring.

One who lets his kids run around doing what they please and talk back will unleash a complete terror on society. Those kids make teachers' lives miserable, as well as shoppers, and co-workers later in life. They grow up to be awful friends, selfish paramours, and EX-husbands and wives. Check the divorce stats, if you think I'm lying! I propose that there are as many divorces, if not more, that had NO physical abuse but occurred because one or both parties had no willingness to tough out a rough situation selfishly choosing to ruin lives rather than live up to a commitment.

See: Irreconcilable differences.

There are things that damage society just as much as child abuse- WHICH SPANKING IS NOT! Ask ENRON investors. Ask anyone who has suffered at the cloven hooves of a crooked politician.

Don't try to trivialize a good point by saying that I think that the ills of the world will be solved with a belt. I am not ridiculous, so don't you be. What I AM saying is that if you prune a shrub early, you stand a better chance of controlling and shaping its development.

Spanking is no more necessary in every situation as is the emergency brake in a car or a fire extinguisher-- it is there for use in extreme cases. And different kids need different levels of discipline. My mother got only one spanking from her father, but some of her siblings got probably dozens. Oh, yeah, I just thought about it; the only sibling of hers to go bad was the one my grandmother wouldn't let anybody touch! But THAT was just a coincidence, hunh experts?

When there was more discipline, there was less crime. There were fewer unwed mothers and fatherless children. Old people were respected, and children didn't curse in front of grown-ups like they do now. The more lenient and ''progressive'' we have become, the more incivil our world is. Whooh!! We really have evolved!

Gangs are RUN by kids. Kids with NO parental guidance. We are the first generation who are actually AFRAID of our children! Ask their innocent victims which is worse-- a whipping or a bullet in the head.

''Nip it, nip it, nip it,'' Barney Fife used to say. And I agree. My great-grandmother used to tell my father, ''Um gone git MY hands on you before the po-leece do, cuz they don't care nudd'n 'bout cha! They'll knock ya in na head an' KILL ya!" That is the truth. This world loves no one. It is hard and harsh, and will do whatever it can to take what you have.Including your life. A parent's measured, Godly discipline is not harmful and will help a child avoid -- or cope with-- life's potholes.

Christians have an ETERNAL perspective that allows us to see the tremendous difference between a whupping and death. We know that there are worse things in life than a child crying. We serve a God who tells us that whipping a child will not kill him. It is a temporary pain. God disciplines us in sometimes painful ways. We ALL will lose our lives. I am not angry with the Lord because I will die, or because my folks won't live forever, and even if I did get angry, He is God enough to not let that make Him soft. He will hurt our feelings when and if necessary.

We, however, ARE soft. Rather than have our kids angry with us, we try to become their pals. A bunch of spineless yes-men! We try to reeezon with them. How can we reason with a person who doesn't possess the judgment to drive a car or marry or drink alcohol or buy a gun or rent an apartment or share a toy or eat vegetables or stay out of mud puddles or come in when the street lights come on or not eat the Christmas lights!!!

I don't necessarily have the time to explain the harmful properties of alternating current and conductive metals to a doggone baby. I don't necessarily have the time to explain how boiling water makes baby's skin slide off. A sharp smack on the hand saves time, words, and LIFE!!!

We opened the gate wide and let them run around in traffic. So that WE could feel better about our compassionate selves. I say that a child getting hit by a metaphoric car out in that street is a DIRECT act of violence!

I'll stop spanking my kids when Oprah starts spanking hers!