Posted on 11/14/2016 10:43:43 AM PST by PROCON
MONDAY, Nov. 14, 2016 -- Spanking and hitting children to discipline them has been on the decline among U.S. parents -- rich and poor alike -- since 1988, a new study finds.
According to the researchers, the number of mothers with an average income level who considered physical discipline acceptable decreased from 46 percent to 21 percent over two decades.
At the same time, mothers who felt timeouts were a better type of discipline rose from 51 percent to 71 percent, the investigators found.
"Parents seem to be using more reasoning and nonphysical discipline strategies with children, which is in line with what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended in 1998," said lead researcher Rebecca Ryan. She's an associate professor of psychology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
"At all income and education levels, parents' attitudes toward physical punishment have changed over the last 20 years and, very likely, their behavior with their children," she said.
For the study, Ryan and her colleagues reviewed four national studies of kindergarten-age children -- about 5 years old. The studies were conducted between 1988 and 2011.
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Fewer U.S. kids know who their daddy is.
Dude in the center looks like he got on the wrong end of some pepper-spray.
My dad never spanked me or my two brothers.
Dad was a very young man when his boots touched the beaches of Normandy.
My brothers and I got whoopins out behind the chicken house.
I haven’t spanked my kid in years...think her last spanking was when she was 4 or 5. All I have to do is start yanking privileges and it works like a charm....plus it helps to have a good kid to begin with...
it shows!!!
They haven’t met my sons. They are sweet children until they are not. Both of them have total break downs where I am truly left with nothing else to deal with them. I rather not, and I rather reserve “hitting” for truly bad behavior.
My struggle I guess is some say they hitting a child for hitting another child teaches them the wrong message. I don’t know.
Same for my wife and I. Both kids are in the 30’s, both are upstanding adults and we are very proud of them. But they had love and discipline, there were rules, and consequences for when the rules were broken. There were also rewards.
There is a big difference between hitting and spanking.
People here equate spanking with raising kids properly. It’s false.
I didn’t spank my 3 sons. They’re growing to be fine young men.
I got beaten when I was a kid by various adult step parents while parents stood by. To this day, I’d like to beat the hell out of all of them. I grew up on the 70s btw.
We spanked. Didn’t have to after about 5-6, they may have had 1-2 incidents after that, but for the most part they’d figure it out by then....do as your told, don’t talk back, behave.
Never in public - that was a pick-up and leave. Usually a smirk or two from other parents (some who had no business smirking and some who understood). I don’t discipline my employees publicly so I don’t discipline my kids that way either. Once home was another issue.
The oldest is studying Biology (organic is kicking her ass) with a Japanese minor (problem there is getting enough Japanese credits since she tested out of almost all the language credits). Scholarships help and she tested out of her first year of classes because she had something like 15 AP courses in HS....her friends called her crazy till they found out she’d passed out of so much.
The youngest just got accepted to one of her colleges with a 50% tuition cut due to her grades. She’ll get her 4th letter in hockey at a wt of 115 playing defense - wow that’s a story. She has some serious art talent - maybe one day I’ll figure out how to post pics on here....hmmm - here’s her instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/hiiragi__/
, not sure if you’ll be able to see that but it has some of her artwork - feel free to follow her - she needs the exposure. ( proud papa)
Older daughter draws too, just not her focus... not sure where they got that my stick figures are lucky not to limp or fall over....
No one says a kid has to be spanked for every infraction...sometimes just being an alpha dad and conveying the aura of “might do it” if you misbehave is often enough.
Dr. Spock was an idiot, and even he recanted his own advice never to physically punish.
“No one says a kid has to be spanked for every infraction...sometimes just being an alpha dad and conveying the aura of “might do it” if you misbehave is often enough.”
Yep. Spankings were the last resort, but that stare could frighten obedience out of me every time.
My parenting book, for desperate parents in child-governed homes, goes public on Amazon in 8 days. Yes, we discuss spanking.
Each kid is different. Spanking just steeled our oldest’s resolve. It devastates kid #5. Kid #6 can take it, doesn’t cause a change in behavior. Isolating #2 & #3 would be a reward :). What works for most of them is a loss of privileges. Gets tough as they don’t have that many.
And teachers can tell the difference.
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