I, like most other parents, tire of being sidelined by kids bringing their latest laundry list of sibling complaints. Their sentences are filled with the words: he, she, they, and what they did to ME!
Spanking is a super common — and many times, socially acceptable — way many parents choose to discipline their kids, but a 2009 study revealed that physical punishment can actually REDUCE the grey matter in children's brains.
It's that moment when they've pushed the envelope too far, said too much, or frankly, have just caught me running on fumes.
I do think that spanking is a tool in the discipline kit, and that separates me from many, many of you who view spanking as flat out abuse.
If you were seven, raised in an orphanage, adopted into a new country and trying to learn English, wouldn't you be frustrated and rebellious? The entire idea of trusting people is foreign to this boy, and then he enters a house where...well, I don't see a feeling of trust when I watch this video segment.
Books often advise us against intervening, for example, when a child is having a tantrum or siblings are fighting. However, these “blanket rules” for interacting can easily mislead or confuse us.
We want to ensure that parents use sensible guidelines when allowing their child to visit someone else’s home. We share ideas about this subject because the notion of children needing to have playdates is relatively recent.
It seems especially refreshing for children to live in a place and a time when children would assume a teacher would never physically punish them and feel safe to ask questions so openly.
How to deal with biting, throwing, screaming, and other frustrating infant behavior.
