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DISCIPLINE WITHOUT SPANKING

This is an answer to the parenting tag by Mitch: To Cane or Not to Cane?

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Whenever I am asked of the question, my quick answer would always be a big NO-NO to spanking. Why? Plan and simple, the truth is—spanking is a form of violence and is never the positive way of disciplining a child.

Unfortunately, I’m speaking on personal experience. :( I confessed that once, I had laid my hands on my son at one time he was at his worst. And after that, ever I felt so guilty and never did it again. I clearly remembered that my emotions were running really high during that time I spanked my son that I became so enraged prompting me to hit my son hardly so as to release my anger. And I regret that I did it because I knew it definitely did not give the kind of respect I wish my son had for me, but instead, it only instilled fear of him in me. Continue Reading »

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