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Discipline and physical punishment are different. Discipline will always be necessary for the correct development of children, but physical punishment is always optional. Too much physical punishment can be harmful to children normal healthy development.

When I tell people that I don't believe in spanking as a form of discipline I get a wide variety of responses. Some people agree, some disagree, but it seems everyone has an opinion.

Studied pros and cons for child rearing your child. This article will hit both sides of the spectrum. Gives great varieties on ways to discipline your child depending on their age. An excellent article for unsure parents when dealing with discipline.

A recent buzz is sweeping through the Australian continent over whether "smacking" your children is an acceptable form of punishment. Recent polls have showed a significant lead to "smacking" being an accpetable form over the opposition.

If parents want to raise non-violent respectful children why does the parenting community at large still embrace corporal punishment?

Corporal punishment in TN schools

Has all the hype about spanking kids been helpful to society?

The history, prevention, demographics, evolution, and risk factors of physical child abuse in sweden since the passage of the 1979 "anti-spanking" law.

There are so many areas of life that will influnce your child. Children, other adults, education, etc. Does it really make a difference?

Why parents should dare to discipline

Are time-outs and groundings really working or is it time to bring back spanking?

Should corporal punishment be allowed in schools, with or without parental permission? What exactly does corporal punishment teach a child?

So you think you should spank your child, or you are for the school doing it. What is a fair amount of punishment? How do you know that you are not crossing the line into abuse?

Corporal punishment has been a popular method of punishment that many parents choose to incorporate into their lives without giving it a careful thought. It can begin at a

Should spanking be considered abuse?

It has been said that parenting is not for the weak of heart. I never realized that parenting my one year old would be quite this gawd-aweful hard!

While spanking is a hotly debated topic, there are few guidelines showing parents who choose to spank the correct way to do it.

Does your child need more self-discipline? Find out how to encourage and model effective discipline techniques and behaviors, and learn what will and will not work for them in the long-term.

Anticipating and preventing "bad" behavior is one of the best ways to discipline your child.

Many parents believe that spanking is the only way to get through to a young child, but this is untrue. There are many gentle ways of disciplining young children.

Spanking has been dubbed lazy parenting by some, and this is because parents who use spanking as a means of discipline, fail to resolve the behavior using patience and consideration,

Do you agree or disagree that spanking your child is the correct form of discipline?

Raising a child is a very personal experience. While there is the common thought that it "takes a village" to raise our children, we are often very territorial about our own kids and who has the right to discipline them.

California's state legislature is considering passing a law that would ban spanking children, making California the first and only state to outlaw spanking as punishment.

Spanking is not right in any shape or form. We all as parents get upset and sometimes do the wrong thing by spanking. It is not right nor fair to a child of any age.

Where did the myth that spanking is the only way come from, and how soon can we make it stop?

CA Assemblywoman Sally Lieber would like to make spanking a child under 4 illegal. How could this law possibly be enforced?

When I heard that a parent could receive a $1000 fine or jail time for spanking their child, "enough is enough!" was all I could think.

I don't believe strangers should be making the decisions of how to discipline my child.

While there are many people who contend that there is nothing wrong with giving your child a smack on the butt, there are many others who feel that spanking your child has no discipline value. There are definitely some things to consider before spanking your child!

A look at pending bills regarding parent teacher conferences and spanking, and the addition of obese children to the child protection register in the UK.

What techniques work in disciplining a young child?

This article is an opinion piece focusing on the issue of child rearing. Many people in society set a standard for disciplining, however, each child is different, thus different methods may need to be employed by parents.

What next? Corporal punishment at the workplace? No, wait; I skipped a level: grad school! Who in their sane mind endorses corporal punishment at the college level? Someone who commented on one of my articles did!

Corporal punishment is defined as the deliberate infliction of pain intended to correct behavior or to punish.

To those in favor of corporal punishment in schools, what if your teen daughter comes home one day and says that Mr. Milton slapped her -- in the breast? Or spanked her on her derriere with an open hand, then added a little squeeze at the end?

This is a report on Corporal Punishment in Schools and I wrote it for a college class.

An article that deals with the results of the past use of corporal punishment by parents and how child protective services stepping in has resulted in uncontrollable children.

Another example of corporal punishment out of control. This young teacher ordered other kids to hit a student for being tardy. Corporal punishment replaces brains. Corporal punishment is no different than a man beating his wife. This teacher is a 22-year-old punk.

An article arguing against corporal punishment.

Will bringing back corporal punishment help our society? In a word...yes. Yes, I admit that in some areas corporal punishment is still legal, but it has been lightened to the point that it really isn't effective anymore.

Disciplining young children, with the use of "time-out" can be difficult as, without an expanded vocabulary, young children are often confused about behavior and the discipline that is associated with it.

Here is a discipline technique that you may or may not have tried yet...

Time out can be an effective tool for parents of toddlers and young children if used consistently and with meaning. This article gives advice on how to use time out in a way that could work for you.

Toddlers are people who are making the transition from being helpless babies to "being a person". For just about a year and half it can be helpful for parents to remember that discipline isn't only about punishing. Its about teaching.

Some parents say they hit their kids out of love. Do teachers strike out of love, too? Teachers must really love black boys, because black boys are more likely to get hit than any other student demographic.

I see so many solutions comming out for the adult criminal but what about stopping the criminal when he or she is just a bad kid?

There are times where it's not only appropriate to use corporal punishment on children, but it's also for their own good.

A fable reads that the state of Mississippi was originally named Mispi. The process by how the name eventually evolved into its current alias was through school children being forced to say the name while being paddled.

I don't believe in the traditional time out that consists of placing a child in a chair for 10 minutes. I do believe in creating a safe space where a child can cool down for a few minutes.

I want help you to understand principle of Islamic criminal law and describe Islamic crimes and punishment (penance). Islamic criminal law has five categories of crimes: (haad, ghesas, diyat, ta’azirat, deterrent punishment).

Studies now believe that Reinforcement has more effect on modeling a childs beahviour than punishment. However, we cannot do away with punishment. The situation and the beahviour executed should determine whether you use indirect reinforcement or punishment.

Tired of "time-outs"? Here are some suggestions to incorporate into your parenting bag of tricks to help manage your child's behavior and contribute to development and change...

A review of Christine Field's book, Life Skills for Kids: Equipping Your Child for the Real World

Parenting and Foster Care have the same goal for the socialization of the child based on teaching moral development using your conscience choices. When providing Foster Care, you are raising children as if they were your own.

Parents who enjoy travel will find they like it even more if their children learn to enjoy it with them. These parenting tips should help to bring the next generation of travelers along.

Good parenting begins with good discipline. This article has advice on when and how to discipline your children.

Children are not robots and neither are their actions. I have composed a list of spanking and time out alternatives. I employ a number of corrective methods when attending to the erroneous behavior of my children. The methods listed are just a few of my favorites.

What is the world coming to? Politicians pushing for laws to be passed to ban corporal punishment of children, making a decent parent a criminal one smack at a time. That's the problem with this world

Spanking can now become a thing of the past. Now, parents have the ultimate child discipline tools, if they know how to use them properly.

Every parent knows that child care situations are fluid and you need an entire toolbox of options to get you through. Bartering is a great solution to everyday child care needs.

Modern view of discipline varies as much as parents themselves do.

This is an article about disciplining your child so the rest of us can deal with him or her.

Children can learn to self regulate behavior if they are taught from an early age through consistent discipline and natural consequences.

No one wants to be placed in a situation where you are forced to discipline someone else's child. At times it may become necessary. I have written this article to state some guidelines for disciplining other people's children in your home.

Assemblywoman Sally Lieber on Thursday announced she is revising her proposed bill. In the new language, spanking a child would no longer be a crime.

Do you think caning is better than paddling?

Put away that switch! Learn ways to make kids behave without hitting them!

California assembly woman wants to make it illegal for parents to spank their kids ages 3 and up. What do you think?

Do you spank your child? Do you not spank your child? This is one major question faced by many new parents. The debate has gone on for years, and probably will continue. Sides are split on whether or not spanking is a good idea.

When we were young we were spanked if we acted up and we grew up fine.Now that I have my own child I often ask myself should I use spanking to discipline my daughter? Is it effective? Will it cause my daughter to resent me?

Being a parent is hard enough as it is without having to fight to get your kids to behave. Here are some tips on how to discipline your kids without spanking.

We've all did it. We've all had it done to us. A swat, a pat, a smack, a spank. Is spanking still okay? The best advice I can give on this, being a mother of two, does the time (punishment)fit the crime?.

Spanking with this paddle board made from a two by four will send a correct message. The trick he says is not to spank a child in anger but to spank them with love instead.

Research has shown that spanking you children can cause disturbing problems later on

On the subject of discipline, what emerges as most important is that it is done properly. It's not what is done that matters most, but how.

If you have a tantrum-laden, spoiled rotten 4 year-old, this will help them get out of that seemingly permanent phase. First things first: It starts with you.

I've lived in the South for a number of years now. Before I had kids, I was convinced that the only way to keep kids in line was to spank them.

Why is it that so many parents these days seem to think that spanking their children will help behavior issues? Is it simply because that is the way that our parents and their parents disciplined?

Spanking as erotic stimuli is a very popular piece of the whole BDSM or D/s (Domination and submission) culture. WHY?

In California, Assembly woman Sally Lieber wants to propose a new bill that will prohibit parents/guardians from spanking children under 3 years old. Violation of this law would land mom or dad in jail for a year and/or a $1,000 fine.

To spank or not to spank: that is the question most parents have already answered one way or the other. I know I had before even becoming parent, yet I'm not doing things the way I'd planned.

It happens everyday, children at the store, or at the bus stop acting totally out of control disturbing anyone standing nearby. Or maybe you have seen a parent who angrily beat a tired or sick child whose crying has annoyed their parents.

If your children aren't doing so well, maybe it IS you -- not your parenting, but your behavior. Have you taken real personal responsibility for your own life?

Some parents believe that their kids will grow up to be terrorists if they don't hit them on a near-daily basis. So if spanking is outlawed, the more-violent parents might resort to punching and slugging and shoving to the ground their kids.

Understanding the difference between spanking and abusing your child. There is a difference.

I believe in spanking. I know it's unpopular with many today, and there is ample research that says it's not healthy. However, I still believe in it, for the following reasons:

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Should spanking your children be a crime?

Corporal punishments still implemented in schools around our country. By not knowing, you have given the schools permission to spank. The school may say its rare, which means that they do spank children.

This is an argument for and against the spanking of children.

This is my opinion on the subject of spanking

Since having a child my ideas of discipline have changed greatly.

When molding young people for tomorrow, sometimes you have to slap the clay.

This article explores Senator Mazillis bill that will make crooks out of parents.

AP parents are always described by what they don't do, and seem to have a hard time explaining exactly what it is they *do*. They don't think of their children as subordinates, but as other people.

I work in a retail store. On a daily basis, I see parents allowing their children to run through the aisles and knock things over. The parents do nothing to correct this behavior.

If you see a child running through a store, or damaging a person's property and the parents are just tuning it out, do you have the right to tell or advise them on what they should do?

I will explain and give examples of each one.