Is using a little spanking while raising a child ...

Generally, spanking is out of favour nowadays. Still, most of humanity used it until very recently, and not many children were severely damaged by it. Some were, however, and some still are, as we can read in the newspapers from time to time.

"A little spanking," as your question put it, is not very precise. Some people would take that to mean spanking only when used to avert something terrible, like a child preparing to set the house on fire. Others would think that any beating that does not result in injuries requiring medical attention is perfectly all right. Need I say that the second group are wrong?

As far as the use of physical violence is concerned--and let's face the fact that a spanking is violent by its very nature--parents are best advised to avoid it. You aren't allowed to spank your spouse or your employees, so why should you be free to assault your child? 

Each child responds in different ways to different forms of discipline.  Some children require spanking; and when I say spanking, I don't mean hurting them, as it should never be so hard as to cause harm.  However, when you spank and then later tell them not to hit when they hit, it is very confusing to a child.  I have found that with my children, just the threat of spanking is enough to keep them from misbehaving.  This is not my only form of discipline, I also take away things that are important to them such as games or tv time.  Some children respond to this technique, some to timeouts, some to re-directing; it really depends on the individual child and each parent needs to figure what works for their child.

There are stages on a child's life that spanking is effective, as the child grows there are different approaches and rewarding it with

from my personal experience, spanking isn't a good form of punishment or whatever reasoning a parent use for spanking their child. i was spanked as a child and hated it, when my little sister and I were younger we were afraid of our dad, who was the only one who spanked us. granted, my dad has anger issues and is probably bi-polar, but i was still afraid of him as a child. flicking your child isn't good, again from my personal experience.

If you watch how the kids who have never been beaten up by the parnets turn up, you will consider it...When I was a kid I was also beaten up for doing wrong and I thank my parents for it. It thought me a good lesson and I became a responisble and good adult.Back than I was mad at them but as the years passed by I realized it was the best method.

These spankless modern methods just allow our kids to be influenced by the tv, esspecialy mtv. And I don't want that my kid behaves like the people on the mtvs ''reality shows''.

If the parents don't lead the kids on the right way who will? The teachers? Kids these days have no respect for the teachers, because they have to much rights.

Back then we were affraid of the teachers and we had respect, not only for the teachers but for all pepople.

So what I'm trying to say is, spanking the kids or better beating them up is not going to damage them but lead them on the right path. Of course the kid has to know why is he beaten up.