Spanking can be therapeutic when practiced safely, with consent & intention, offering benefits like stress/anxiety relief.
While there's been a lot of talk lately about whether spanking is still an appropriate disciplinary measure to enact on a child, would you let a teacher or principal ever take a paddle to your child in order to reprimand their behavior? What would you do if they did?
After apparently receiving some criticism on an anti-spanking repost she shared on her Instagram Stories last night, The Real Housewives of Potomac's Ashley Darby fired back in a lengthy message that encourages people to "look into the extensive research."
The viral video of a father beating his 12-year-old daughter for having sex is disturbing for several reasons. He could have done better.
While Tamera is a traditional parent, Tia Mowry is an unconventional parent and doesn't believe in spanking after getting "whooped" as a kid.
After the recent recommendation that parents don't spank their children, Black women share you they do or don't use that form of discipline.
Does this make sense or is it a bit too farfetched?
One woman says her mother--not her or her child's father--was the first person to physically discipline her son.
And while I am strongly against those crazy parents dragging their children through store aisles, my child will get a spanking when he gets older, should he get out of hand.
While she fights the charges (which she has pleaded not guilty to), the state has custody of her 5-year-old son.