Family Forum / Parenting / Spanking / May 2005

I have permission from Amacom Books to distribute an
excerpt from "Mommy Guilt: Learn to Worry Less, Focus on
What Matters Most, and Raise Happier Kids." The book is
based on an elaborate survey into parenting that you may

Sure, I agree that if you look only at the surface record, it would
appear that MLK was a recipient of, and a supporter of, the concept (in
theory) of corporal punishment. Occasionally some of his sermons
concerning crime among urban youth would almost make him sound like a

Using spanking to teach discipline
Discipline kids without spanking, DONNA RAYCRAFT, Penacook - Letter
April 29. 2005 8:00AM
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http://nospank.net/n-o38r.htm
This, spanking apologists and supporters of parents "making up their
own mind" is what is so frequently the outcome of your dishonorable
position.

....from the website:
 "Discipline must come through liberty...
We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been
rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a

Where were you between 10:15 PM and 10:30 PM on August 31st, 1969 when
the lights went out?

Taser on children OK, police say
Daytona Beach News Journal | November 27 2004
Officials from a majority of law enforcement agencies in Volusia and
Flagler counties say they would not hesitate to shoot a child with a

"While students are guaranteed the freedom of speech, LeMoyne College's
recent actions against a student have raised questions of whether or not
academic papers are the place to exercise this right.
LeMoyne College expelled Scott McConnell, a student from its Masters of

   Leon Festinger and a team of social scientists in 1957 studied the behavior
of members of a UFO cult under duress when aliens failed to land on Earth as
predicted. Some in the cult dropped out when the announced deadline came and
went; others redoubled their conviction in the ...