I don't think the people in the article have a problem controlling their tempers. The problem is that these parents think that a simple time-out is enough for every situation. The parents don't do enough to set their kids straight.
Kids are smart, and they quickly learn how to get their way. I think this article shows the situation of undisciplined kids doing their usual thing in order to get their way, and the parents instinctually smacking them out of frustration.
Of course in our current society, the parent quickly feels like they are the Devil and immediately apologizes to the kid. Because after all, no good parent would ever strike their kid.
And yet another generation of unruly, undisciplined, and entitled kids springs up.
Yup. HUGE mistake apologizing to the kid, right away.
If the kid truly deserved it, there should be no apology, period.
Sometimes we actually do unfair things, and for that we should apologize - but rarely. And if so, again, leave it till later on.
I wish I could post the Irma Brown video skit. ;-D Too funny, if you ask me! Probably on YouTube.
You might want to recheck the article, one of the people is a 40something who admits being frustrated in her relationship and work and shook her child violently because he broke a toy... these people can’t control their tempers, and as such think everyone else who’s punished their child with corporal punishment are like them.
These are children in adult bodies as far as I’m concerned.