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If you’ve been watching NBC’s new show, The Slap, you’ve probably got an opinion on the central question in the show’s premise: is it okay to put your hands on other people’s children in a disciplinary way? How far is too far when it comes to using corporal punishment? It’s a difficult, touchy question that […]

There is a huge difference between abuse and discipline. Huge. But of course not all parents agree on where to draw the line. There’s another (I say another because this trend is getting out of hand) viral video floating around the internet of a father beating his 13-year-old daughter after he thought she was missing […]

My son is 45 pounds and about 46 inches tall. He’s a healthy six-year-old bean pole. While I am not opposed to spanking kids for disciplinary reasons, I do keep those numbers in my head when I get mad enough to hit him. Seems a little extreme, but when I read news headlines about fathers […]