Jana Kramer and her friends are ready to debate the topic of spanking.
During the Monday, August 11, episode of iHeartRadio’s “Whine Down” podcast, the former One Tree Hill star and her cohosts — Kristen Brust and Kathryn Woodard — reacted to The Bachelor alum Madi Prewett and husband Grant Troutt’s plans to spank their daughter Hosanna.
“It’s wild to just automatically assume they’re going to have to spank this child,” Brust shared. “We talked about our views at home but I never assumed I’d have to spank [my kids]. … I’ve never forward thought about hitting my kid.”
Woodard explained that she has spanked her children in the past, but believes it should never be done out of anger.
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“We learned very quickly with all of ours that it didn’t really work,” she added. “For me, it was always in a, ‘I’ve tried this. This didn’t work. … I’ve tried this. Let’s try this.’ Yes, it was different for every child.”
During the July 7 episode of Prewett’s “Stay True” podcast, Trout explained his thought process when it comes to spanking.
“When you have a child, you don’t just discipline them for being good and obeying you. Like, if [our daughter] Hosanna obeys us, we’re not like, ‘Come here, girl. Pull ‘em down,’” he said. “We will on the record [spank our child] because the Bible so clearly says, ‘Folly is bound up in a child, but discipline drives it far away.’”
For Kramer, who identifies as a believer in Christ, she isn’t sure what part of the Bible supports spanking.
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“I don’t think God wants us to take a rod and hit our kids,” she said. “That’s the piece I don’t understand. The rod can be your tone.”
While the “Why Ya Wanna” singer — who shares Jolie, 9, and Jace, 6, with ex-husband Mike Caussin and Roman, 20 months, with husband Allan Russell — said she’s “not trying to come down on their parenting in the slightest at all,” she has more questions.
“I think there are other ways to discipline,” Kramer added. “I associate it with my negative past of things and I don’t think you should ever be joyful about hitting.”
During the candid conversation amongst friends, Woodard also admitted to Durst that it was hard for her to hear, “We don’t plan on hitting our kids.”
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“I don’t like hearing that,” she said. “That gives me a negative, like, I’m not hitting my kids but everyone feels differently about that.”
Durst, however, stood by her belief that spanking “is a hit.”
“I have no opinion either way truthfully,” she continued. “But we put a title on it. If it’s corrective hitting, it’s still hitting.”
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At the end of the discussion, Kramer jokingly asked her friends, “You guys good?”
Both cohosts agreed that it’s a personal topic that every parent will have their own views on.
“I’m not shamful of it,” Woodard said when discussing her experience with spanking. “I don’t feel that way, but it’s not something I’m joyful about.”
