Family Forum / Parenting / Spanking / August 2005

Well, according to the article the court claims the parents didn't
"discipline" their child.
Odds are the court is mistaken (It's claimed 90% of all people are
spanked as children) and this was yet another spanked child....he just

Spanking compulsives will want to avoid this article.
"But those debates, Dr. Sanghavi says, steal attention from the real
issue-giving parents as many methods of firm, loving discipline as
possible. "We're all striving for parental authority," he says. 'But it

"Recourse to some physical punishment was normative in the FSP sample, despite
the liberal politics of the Berkeley community, and the high educational level
and social status of the parents. Although by Time 3 when the children were 14
and 15, 62% of parents used no physical ...

Joint Statement on Physical Punishmentof Children and Youth
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Child Welfare League of Canada
Family Service Canada

This one got it that her child's life was saved. Others, of course,
would want her to sue.
So much for the deadly use of the taser:
Judge Releases 14-Year-Old After Knife Attack

Looks like some parents are figuring it out, even if you can't. And
even the 'spankers' are getting turned around.
I was facinated by the quoting of prospankers as claiming children are
becoming more unruly under a less punitive parent system. Totally

Can one apply the police use of the baton, or other tools, to the
discipline of children by parents logically?
Let's see:
http://www.armortrainingacademy.com/bp/meb.asp

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...........In the end, it all comes down to this: nobody is allowed to
lay a hand on our kids without fear of prosecution. Not babysitters,
not teachers, not daycare workers, etc. These people are expected to
interact with our kids without corporal punishment... and wonder of

(Quoting another -- )
"James P. Comer, the Yale professor of psychiatry and the mind behind
the Comer School Development Program, a highly successful model for
transforming urban schools......."

I have a 5 1/2 yr old son who has ADHD. He is on meds, however his
behavier is very bad. He yells at me, hits me, calls me names. All over
nothing.  I have tried differant ways to handle him, but every technic
is short lived.  Any ideas to help me and him to control himself?

As time passes you'll see more and more states moving away from the
brutality of spanking children...paddling they call it, and more and
more the anti spanking agenda prevail.
For instance, that old self reporting (R R R R...SELF REPORTING? GIMME