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A jaw-dropping video of a little girl wreaking havoc at a Walmart during an explosive temper tantrum has gone viral, leaving viewers stunned. The girl is seen hurling items, breaking food packaging and smashing bottles with no parent or guardian in sight. Flabbergasted bystanders and Walmart employees watched the little girl's epic meltdown, before one person rushed to her defense, telling others: 'You don't know what she's going through.' Two women were seen trying to physically stop the girl but when the child went on the floor and started kicking, they gave up. After she stood back up, the girl...

Albany, N.Y. -- Formal complaints of corporal punishment in New York classrooms more than doubled over the past five years, with 4,223 accusations reported in 2004, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. At the same time, fewer school districts were filing the required semiannual reports detailing corporal punishment allegations, the records show. Many of the allegations involved faculty or staff pushing, slapping and grabbing students' arms. Among those verified were an incident in which a teacher put a misbehaving student outside to cool off in December without a jacket, a teacher who tackled a student who reached for...

ONDON, July 5 — The House of Lords, the upper house of Parliament, resolved today to limit, but not forbid, the right of parents to hit their children, changing a 144-year-old law that gave parents the right to strike children as "reasonable chastisement" for misbehavior.The vote represented a victory for Prime Minister Tony Blair, who opposes an outright ban on hitting and supported an alternative proposal for physical punishment that caused neither physical nor mental harm.For those who oppose punishing children by hitting them, the debate surrounding the vote was part of a campaign to secure for children the same...

BROOKLINE, MASS. – It happened years ago, but Deborah Lindeman recounts the moment as if it happened yesterday. Her mother, chastising her, hit her so hard that she left a hand print on her 11-year-old's thigh. Stunned, they both cried for 25 minutes. "We review our lives as parents with some pain, I know we all do," says Ms. Lindeman's mother, Susan Goldstein, who also has a clear memory of when her own father hit her with a belt after she had crossed a street without looking both ways. "I don't like power as a way of solving problems.... We...

Liking yourself is good - right? Importance of self-esteem an idea whose time has past   Robert Fulford National Post Tuesday, October 15, 2002 Connoisseurs of human foolishness will always cherish that giddy moment in 1987 when the California legislature, convinced it had found the key to understanding human failure, set up the Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility. The assemblyman who promoted this idea, John Vasconcellos, believed that raising the self-image of the citizens would cure drug addiction, crime and many other social ills. This project, Vasconcellos argued, was as important as unlocking the secrets...