"Spare the rod, and spoil the child", was my grandma's maxim, and that of many parents at the time.
My mom would never raise her hand. She believed in talking with children. So did some other parents her generation and a few generations post. So high is that belief that a Chinese bay area parent had their son taken away from them in Arizona because they were seen hitting him.
Now-a-days, I see sprinkling of articles supporting spanking again.
The truth is that fads come and go - in parenting, in medicine, in fashion.
My mom would never raise her hand. She believed in talking with children. So did some other parents her generation and a few generations post. So high is that belief that a Chinese bay area parent had their son taken away from them in Arizona because they were seen hitting him.
Now-a-days, I see sprinkling of articles supporting spanking again.
The truth is that fads come and go - in parenting, in medicine, in fashion.
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