So in other words, instead of punishing her for a few moments, and it works for a few weeks, I should basically take away EVERYTHING she has, and completely eliminate the fun there is to being a kid, for weeks or months at a time, in the slim hope that she behaves? That sounds far more severe and less worthwhile then getting her to behave for a few weeks with a simple spanking. Sorry, but you aren't going to change my mind whatsoever. My dad was given corporal punishment as a child, and he's the nicest, kindest, most upstanding male I've ever met in my entire lifetime, bar NOONE. I was given corporal punishment as a child, and besides a short year and a half stint from age 18 to almost 20 of very rebellious nature, I've become very much like him. Soo, yeah I'm leaning towards corporal punishment as actually working.

That, as I said, is your prerogative as the parent

However, there's no need for that long (unless the child chooses it to be that long by constantly misbehaving). 36-120 hours depending on the behavior is plenty long.

And as I said, a full week didn't do a thing. If I kept throwing her back into "solitary confinement" every few days, I'd be removing her entire childhood from her, when I can get the results I want for at least a few weeks at a time via spanking.

You seem to act like corporal punishment doesn't work AT ALL, which is what I'm contesting here, and there are decades and decades and centuries and centuries of proof proving otherwise. Some psychologists come around in the last decade or so and claim it doesn't work and you're willing to believe them just like that? Seems kind of silly to me. I mean, you're always going to have your outliers, the people who fall at the far end of the spectrum of which no amount of punishment, be it emotional or physical, will work to curb their behavior, but by and large, the people I know, and the people my parents know, the ones who received a spanking as a child when they misbehaved, all turned out a good deal more politer and nicer over-all then those who didn't.

"just giving an alternative of equal effectiveness"

Keywords:
1. Alternative
2. Equal
3. Effective

How on earth could you possibly get that I thought that spanking didn't work AT ALL given the words I'm using? I literally equated them explicitly.

I spent every single recess from second through sixth grade merely pacing back and forth. Or at least, that's what my body was doing. My mind, on the other hand... over those five years I must have explored a thousand universes.

So basically your telling me you got a ton of stimulus every day. You don't have to even speak to get stimulus you know You would be incapable of imagining if you hadn't gotten stimulus.

Yeah, to actually eliminate any stimulus whatsoever you'd need to lock someone in a pitch black room.

That's because I never saw that edit. It was made exactly one minute before my response to your post that you edited to put that in there. ^^ Now that I see that, that's cool, makes understanding/accepting your position a good deal easier

sensory deprivation... reminds me of a movie i saw once. an old one. can't remember the name. but you know what im talking about... or maybe you don't.

dude turns into a monkey because he trips gonads when put in a lightless chamber of water.

Actually, to eliminate all stimulus, you have to put someone in a sensory deprivation chamber.

That said, I never said you have to eliminate all stimulus. The person just needs to be given no new or unnecessary stimulation.

Unless you plan on depriving someone of all stimulus from the moment they're born, stimulus deprivation wouldn't work on someone who could entertain themselves in like manner. Stimulus given cannot be un-given.

True on the last point, however you were constantly given new stimulus in your time. How many times did you hear your name over those years? Do you have any idea the endorphin high from just hearing your name? From just being talked to for a minute? Even without responding back? Without that your life would have been miserable. (Un)Fortunately, you were lucky enough to grow up in a relatively loving environment so you don't know that or cannot truly appreciate just how much you were given, but go talk to some orphans that were never adopted or people who were abused by their parents and you'll realize just how much you were given pretty fast.

I totally wish I could afford to build a sensory deprivation chamber. Would be nice to use one every so often to just tune out from all the stress in life for an hour or so.