Re: Re Instead.... » mbrational

Posted by Dinah on July 12, 2012, at 13:43:01

In reply to Re: Re Instead...., posted by mbrational on July 12, 2012, at 13:32:35

Exaggeration is something that tends to turn me in the opposite direction.
I will be the first to say that extreme physical punishment is inexcusable.
There are so many ways to be a rotten parent. I don't believe in spanking myself, but I don't think that mild measured spanking is worse than many other parenting practices. My own view is that emphasis should be placed on parent education rather than blaming people for following what my son wisely terms "outdated" parenting practices. It always shocked me that they spent countless classes teaching me how to have a baby, and zero classes teaching me what to do once the baby got home.
Education, in my opinion, is the answer. If you give parents alternative ways to bring up well-disciplined kids, spanking will decrease. Attacking spanking without education just leads to other problems.

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