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Monday, March 26. 2007

Tough love: Alternatives to spanking

A propos of Dr. Bliss' recent approval of spanking and corporal punishment (A Good Spanking), a friend offers the following alternative to the humiliation of spanking:

When my kids act up, act disrespectfully, or disobey orders repeatedly, we never do physical punishments.

Instead, we take them for a nice little car ride to calm them down. Here's a recent photo of our disciplinary technique, which is designed to keep them out of jail in adulthood:


Posted by Gwynnie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 10:25 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Haha. When we kids used to fight too much in the car in between camp sites on vacation, our parents would make one of us ride on top of the rented tent trailer. Holding onto the railing in front and lying on usually damp canvas was okay, and the view was better. But not much fun in the rain...
#1 retriever on 2007-03-26 11:31 (Reply)
har--as they say, part of love is respect, and part of respect is FEAR!
#2 buddy larsen on 2007-03-26 13:32 (Reply)
Trust, but verify. I always told her to "never stop looking over your shoulder, because you will never know when I will be there." Then, I put it into action. Never intruding, never stopping to talk--just making sure that she saw me. It was great fun! I used to pick the time/place where I knew the most mischief was going on!! She says now that it was the best thing--because, she knew every moment that she was loved by the effort I had to make to show up somewhere at 1:30 AM, or whenever.
#3 anonymous on 2007-03-27 03:59 (Reply)

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