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There is a right way to spank!!
I have nothing but contempt for parents who punish or abuse there children out of anger or rage. However, most children can greatly benefit from discipline with the proper use of a good spank using the following guidelines. Sit them down next to you affirming they know what they did was wrong and why. Then tell them that you love them but what ...
Posted to Family by wbaydo on September 26, 2008
We’ve done nothing and we’re all out of ideas
I had a neighbor that has a master’s degree in Child Development and she would preach at us with the same misguided and deluded point of view expressed in the article ''why you shouldn't hit your kids''. However, what she failed to realize is that she had the WORST kid in the neighborhood. The child, at 5 years old, would curse at her mother and ...
Posted to Family by hatchedg on September 26, 2008
But what do we do instead?
This is the problem .. if you were raised by parents who spanked you, in the heat of the moment (and believe me, raising kids is ALL ABOUT living in the heat of the moment) what do you do INSTEAD? We learn our parenting strategies from our parents very early .. like before-we-can-even-speak early, and we are required to deal with our own ...
Posted to Family by ariel4thou on September 24, 2008