Who Needs a Spanking? (Alexia's Books)

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They offer an analogy: “You don’t go see your physical therapist because you want to have sex with them. So spanking, when used judiciously, appropriately, and in combination with other disciplinary techniques, can be a helpful part of training our children. Regardless, Christians aren’t the only people who discipline their children through spanking so it’s really a moot point. Tell someone you trust about it (like a teacher, counselor, or another adult family member), they can help you get to safety.

You are not going to change a lifetime of someone's thinking with a brief comment, any more than her comment changed your thinking.In life we will make mistakes, and manning up to them (being willing to accept them, and learn from them as well as take the earned consequences) is becoming a lost quality.

After a 1 hour and 15 drive from home, we waited to be seated and ended up talking to the owner who was apologizing for his decision to cancel the seafood buffet as apparently it's too expensive for him.At this point immediate discipline will likely be ineffective as the focus has turned from the rule that was broken, to a battle of wills. Family Routines helps parents get their kids to help them manage the house — and also get into positive routines that make daily life easier. Parents have an ongoing opportunity and responsibility to teach our children how to love well and live life as effectively and healthfully as possible. To our children, we are big, knowledgeable, intimidating, and–to our younger ones especially–we are their world.

Because according to them, any consensual risk-aware spanking session is going to have therapeutic benefits. A light spanking or flick of the hand can cause far less damage than an angry strike with a stick–and the short and long-term side effects of a simple swat could be minor, some might think.Leaving them alone — when my kids were little I had a playpen set up in that I’d put them in when they were having behavior issues, most often this was for their own safety as I needed a time out. He and his wife, Heather, have been married since 1997 and love being parents to their three teen children, Alex, Lexi, and Maci.

In the same way that doctors don’t encourage alcohol consumption during pregnancy, psychologists certainly don’t recommend the use of spanking. If a child is having a tantrum then their time should start when they have calmed down and can keep it under control for the duration of the timeout. Spanking has gotten a bad rap in the past few years, even though for a lot of us, it was our parent’s discipline of choice. And although we may want to “win” battles with our children over misbehavior, to do so in a way that makes them afraid, unsettled, and unstable?

Maybe she is scolding, maybe she thinks she is being helpful, maybe she is expressing frustration that a younger generation does not share her beliefs or that her hard-earned understanding of how to mother is out of vogue.