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New Research: Why Never Spanking Might Be Worse for Kids Than Spanking Them
Newsweek ^
| December 30, 2009
| Po Bronson
Posted on 12/31/2009 9:19:58 AM PST by Arec Barrwin
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To: Arec Barrwin
I only got the belt twice as a kid. Both times, I had it coming in spades ;-)
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:22:29 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
To: Arec Barrwin
To explain this shocker, [...] A shocker only to liberal idiots who read Newsweak (sic).
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:22:31 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Arec Barrwin
You should spank your children every day. You may not know what they’ve done... but they do...
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:23:13 AM PST
by
pgyanke
(You have no "rights" that require an involuntary burden on another person. Period. - MrB)
To: Arec Barrwin
Willful disobedience and behavior that endangers oneself or others are reasons to seriously consider the spanking option.
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:28:09 AM PST
by
Starboard
To: Gondring
Newsweek is atrocious, isn’t it? My far left sibling reads it religiously, and then parrots it.
The comments at the bottom of the article reveal the shock and anger of their regular viewers; i.e. “child buttock battering”. Egad.
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:29:04 AM PST
by
I still care
(A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
To: Arec Barrwin
Because they might grow up one day to become president after never being told "No!"
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:29:08 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
To: I still care
Barney Frank is busy mixing up some batter as we speak...
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:29:44 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
To: Arec Barrwin
I was only spanked once, and boy did I never talk back to my mom ever again. Dad left his print on my back side.
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:30:00 AM PST
by
JenB987
To: Arec Barrwin
My brother was a cop in an area with lots of rich liberal professors, and countless times he'd have to pick up their little darlings and talk to the parents. Often, these parents would say something like, "Why would our child do something like this to us? We always gave them what they wanted...we never punished them...."
I wish I could recall some of my brother's witty lines to them. (It was a treat to do a ride-along with him wired up with a mic.)
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:30:28 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Arec Barrwin
Always thought time out was dumb...A punishment for parents who might stop some kid's rotten behavior with one whack.
From my perspective, it put the parent in a corner...Dumb, dumb, dumb....
Every kid has a price...find out what it is...
To: stephenjohnbanker
Same here. Never got a lickin' that I didn't have coming.
Gad...I miss my Pa.
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:31:27 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
To: Arec Barrwin
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
It is a good idea to tell them what action(s) resulted in the discipline too. Otherwise they’ll just think they got a whoopin’ because Mommy/Daddy was in a bad mood/doesn’t like them/or is just likes tanning their hyde for no good reason.
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:31:47 AM PST
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: Arec Barrwin
There is a huge difference in physical abuse and corrective, physical discipline. The libs and RINOs and wimpy conservatives who can’t figure out the difference, well, there’s the real problem right there. Common sense on the issue is gone for these folks.
It also illustrates that you can’t use a one-size-fits-all when it comes to disciplining children. Talking, time outs, etc just will not cut it with some people.
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:31:53 AM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Arec Barrwin
Looking for New Research that irrefutably proves spanking punk lib senators and representatives does some good.
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:32:26 AM PST
by
lesko
To: I still care
Sad thing is, those folks who read it think in all sincerity that they are becoming informed.
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:33:33 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Arec Barrwin
YAWN.. So what else is new? What about “spare the rod and spoil the child” did Dr. Benjamin Spock not understand?
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:33:41 AM PST
by
Paperdoll
( Hunter/Palin or Palin/Hunter 2012)
To: Arec Barrwin
I’ve never spanked either of my children (ages 15 and 12). Things aren’t going too badly.
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:34:11 AM PST
by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: Arec Barrwin
I didn’t need “new research”, I relied on the 5,000 years of recorded history and spanked the daylights out of my kids. It was fun, and believe it or not, they appreciate it now (and even then, which surprised me). Obviously, I only went to the level needed to get some tears flowing.
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:34:22 AM PST
by
BobL
(When Democrats start to love this country more than they hate Republicans, good things might happen.)
To: Arec Barrwin
Oddly enough, now that I think about it I don’t know how to spank a child. I mean, that sounds stupid because it would seem elementary, but is it just one big flat smack on the rear, is it five, is it with a paddle or your hand. I need a “Spanking For Dummies” book. And please, no puns.
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posted on
12/31/2009 9:34:29 AM PST
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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