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Tag: corporal punishment

March 22, 2017March 22, 2017Administrator

Corporal Punishment: A Wrong Not a Right

No person has a “right” to strike another, no matter how close the relationship. I remember fifty years ago seeing a mother chase her child with a stick, shouting “I brought you into this world and I can put you in the cemetery!” Luckily, the child was faster than his mother. But the idea of a “right” to hit a child is no laughing matter.

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February 1, 2017February 1, 2017Administrator

Why Do Parents Physically Punish their Children? 5 Useful Analogies from Sedimentary Rocks

Psychologist, George Holden, shares 5 useful analogies from sedimentary rocks for why parents physically punish their children.

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