I really can’t stand Kate Gosselin or her show but I’m right behind her on this! I’m so sick of the “politically correct police” telling us how to raise our kids. When my now teen kids misbehaved, they were spanked. There is a major difference between spanking and beating and yes, it is a very effective disciplinary tool. Judging by the appalling behavior and lack of discipline of most children today, parents should try revisiting the spanking idea. Time to step up and be the parents not the friends!

I think that people are getting too caught up in the life of the Gosselins. Yes it is a very interesting show but at the same time people need to live their lives and leave them alone……Does anyone know why she spanked her….no, so they should not speculate that she went too far when they do not know the whole story.

Spanking is not the only issue here. The fact this child is being spanked in public in front of cameras that the mom knew were present. She yanks the girl’s dress up and exposes her to spank her. These pictures are now and forever on the net for this child’s life for ANYONE to access them. Who know what sick person has downloaded them and is enjoying them now. This child could end up being a target for a sick mind.
The parents have sold their childrens privacy rights away and the children deserve the same protection that child actors get. If this were a child actor…would the public be defending the mom? or calling for protection for the child?

oh my god, who the F@#% cares!!!!???
since when is it illegal to spank YOUR OWN child when they misbehave???

Spare the rod and spoil the child…wherever my kids misbehave is where they get spanked, theres no need to hide it if you don’t think your doing anything wrong, and for all of you who are judging this family just so you know..people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones…leave them alone and don’t watch it if you don’t like it duh

Leave Kate ALONE!! People act like she hit her with a bat. It is not abuse. I wish people would just leave them alone. It is too much for everyone….the family and THE PUBLIC!!!

She spanks…people talk…if her kids were terrible…they’d blame her for that! Go take pictures of Jon with his 23 yr old…leave Kate alone!

Yes but not in public if she misbehaved she gets spanked, I laugh at parents who give time out’s no wonder the kids today turn out the way they do.

Like it says in the Bible, don’t spare the rod to spoil the child.

Nothing is wrong with spanking if you do it when you are not angry and you restore the child in love. There are excesses in everything but spanking a child when needed can turn them around. They do not become violent individuals as some people try to make us think. A spoiled, whiny, disrespectful, self-centered child is far more what we should be concerned about.

I think its right to spank when the child missbehaves ..yes spank not beat and what I saw Kate did not beat the child she merely corrected her .. I got them when I was growing up and also spank my kids when they needed it ..thats the problem with kids today .they say spanking was wrong and then makes the kids think oh well I do wrong if they spank me they get in trouble…only wrong thing I seen kate an djon did was let the world see thier every move I think they need to private time without they world watching…

She was wrong in spanking. you do not have to spank a child, to get then to behave you cant hit, a animal without going to jail and paying a fine and what ever you do dont hit a prisoner thay have more rights then we do she was out of line shame on you.
hit on someone your size you will think twice im sure ………….

I think people need to get over it. I am not a big fan of Kates, but there is nothing wrong with giving your child a spanking. I know plenty of people that spank their children, as a matter of fact i got them when I was a child. There is a difference between discipline and abuse.

Get a grip people! Kate was not abusing her child, a swat on the behind is what most mother’s do to discipline their children and she has every right to do so! Quit watching and waiting for her to do something wrong just so you can have a story to report!!

Oh GET OVER IT!!!

I’m sick and tired of seeing all this crap about spanking.

She spanks her kids. So What? If her kids are misbehaving, it’s certainly within her right to spank them no matter what the public says!
And for all those ‘Psychologists’ who think that Spanking will hurt them mentally or whatever… Get a Life.

Now, I can see it if she used something other than her hand for this, or hit somewhere else. But they are her kids, she has the right to spank them if they misbehave.

Final words:
Sit down, Shut Up, and concentrate on John and Kate and the Soap Opera they’re running, not microscope the rest of it!

I feel that Kate had a right to spank her child. I for one am an young adult now, but when I was four years old my mother and I just got done shopping at the near by Jewel Osco. I ran right out the door and into the parking lot where a car was coming(the car almost ended up hitting me), but my mother pulled me by my hair and back on to the curb. An on looker spoke to my mother and said that what my mother had done was “child abuse”, but my mother came back and stated that she “would reather have a child with a headach than a dead child!” I am so proud of both my mother and for Kate with standing up for what they believe in and for not letting anyone else stop them!!!

Ok, has no one ever seen someone spank their child before?? Everyone is acting like it’s abuse or something..seriously you have to be joking. Many mothers use that as a way of teaching their kids not to do something. I mean I can understand if she is hitting them in the face..but she’s NOT.

What the hell is wrong with everyone? A swat on the butt is not abuse. She was only using her hand. For Christs sake, she has 8 children. I have 2. Tell me when you have never felt like swatting a 5 yr. old when they are really misbehaving. Give me a break. There are not many people on this earth that could raise 8 children at one time. Much less 6 of them being the same age.

I am not a huge Kate fan and definitely
do not like the wuss Jon but
Kate was not abusing her daughter.
Give her a break on this one and get out of her face.
Jon, on the other hand,needs to get a grip—No wonder kate was mean to him—his true colors come out and he is a kid like his kids—definitely do not like him at all.

Why cant a mother spank her child? My mother was spanked, my father was spanked so were my grandparents and so was I and I dont think I was abused. I think it is to the point that parents can’t punish a kid for acting out. I dont see why this is a huge deal.

I think that the people judging Kate’s ” spaking” needs to deal with 8 kids day in and day out and tell me how you react that end of the day. Find a new hobby than judging other people! Kate is a mother, she is not perfect, neither are you!