Carlos Mencia is in fact an expert on child rearing.
I don't think that spanking worked very well on him, based on the material I've seen from him.
You obviously don't have kids, or have some freaky ones that when you are nice and tell them to behave they instantly respond.
The kids you see out somewhere running around crying havoc, yelling and screaming and misbehaving are the ones that the parents were to wimply to lay down the law and spank them. Those kids later become the teenagers causing trouble.
You can bet that when you see a parent tell his child to stifle and he does so quickly, that that parent gives a spanking when the child doesn't listen.
I can't count the number of times I've seen some mother or father yelling repeatedly at their child and the kid just ignoring them and continuing to cause trouble. They aren't adults for christ sake, you can't reason with them. They don't have that capacity yet. You tell them once and if they don't comply the spanking should come.
I don't mean beating. theres a huge difference between beating and simply spanking or taking a belt to an older childs behind.
Mencia may be comedian, but he hit the nail on the head. Spanking teaches kids that bad actions have consequences that they don't like. You can see by the number of young men in U.S. jails the number of parents that did not instill the concept of, "consequences," in their children.
Which is another point. In the adult world if you F up no one coddles you and says, "please don't do that honey." You get the preverbial smack right away. It's best kids learn that early.
Very young kids don't have the mental capacity of adults and will forget things seconds after you tell them. A little spanking makes them remember.
