Jonathan LaPaglia Quotes

Look at the laws: you can't spank a kid without getting in trouble. That kept me in line!

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

No one shall strike or caress a child.

[P]ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.

And we have much better examples of the government not intervening to curtain parental rights, much worse abuse than a simple tap on the hand or a spank is perpetrated by many parents across the country, trust me.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.

If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

Withold not Correction from the Child; for if thou beatest him with the Rod, he shall not Die; Thou shalt beat him with the Rod, and shalt deliver his Soul from Hell

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

I don't like children.

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.

Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids.

People have to see it for what it is, but they would be so shocked to know two simple things that I just really never shared with anyone, but I spank my child at times. He didn't move a muscle, not one inch, and he didn't drop one tear. I tell you that and you are probably like, "Wow, how is that even possible?" But little details like that is not what people are able to see, and that makes the world of difference to the outcome of the situation.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.