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SPANKING CHILDREN

Children today may seem to be more unruly, or "spoiled rotten" so to speak, because unlike days gone by today they may just not have enough chores to do to keep them occupied, both mentally and physically. Teaching, imparting knowledge and the general socialization of children in American society all tends to be "spoon fed" to the children today creating "dependent" thinking children instead of teaching them to do more "independent" thinking for themselves.

Spanking, whipping or paddling is a means of quick and possibly necesssary control yet too much of it may end up counter-productive versus the judicious use of spanking. To get young people to possibly think more about their unruly actions if you point out the "negative" things they do try and remember to also point out some "positive" behavior the child may have done, hopefully, the child may begin to understand right from wrong. This may make more of a longlasting impression on an unruly child instead of the parent just reacting to a child's bad behavior with spanking without the child fully understanding why they got that disrespectful "whack" across their bottom.

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: NBC-TV DATELINE 6/29/97

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