"Can parenting or child rearing be non-punitive?" Is one of the most common questions that parents
ask. If spanking is so effective, why do most people have such an uneasy feeling about it? Some how we
cannot silence our inner doubts about the long term effects of physical punishment. We are a little
embarrassed by the use of force and we keep saying to ourselves, ""here ought to be a better way of rearing
children." Another reason is, within ourselves, no one wants to be hit.
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