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Why Do We Still Spank (Hit) Children?
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This is a summary of an article from Dr. Paul Holinger's Parenting Place that I recommend: Why do we still spank children? The usual answer is to get them to do what we think is best for them — i.e., to obtain behavioral compliance. And, yet, the answer is much more complicated. Dealing with children can stir up very charged and old feelings. The arguments and screaming of a child can push the same buttons that one's own parents or siblings pushed long ago. Or perhaps one does to one's child what was done to oneself: "I was spanked as a child, and I turned out all right." — Yes, but perhaps you turned out all right in spite of the spanking, not because of it … and perhaps things would have been even better if the effective alternatives to spanking which do exist had been utilized. Read the complete article at http://paulcholinger.com/22
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