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UN Ban on Smacking

Today I read about how the UN wants to ban smacking. My first thought? If they are powerless to influence world leaders, I’m pretty sure they’ve got no chance of changing family choices behind closed doors. Nonetheless, countries who have chosen to outlaw it include Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, Italy, Israel, Iceland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, [...]

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Soft Spoken

One of the comments from Amber on the Success of Smacking to me to thinking about being soft spoken. My mother was always soft-spoken, and I have always been that way as well. She never really raised her voice to us when we were little. She’s told me a couple of times that she almost [...]

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The Success of Smacking

I saw this article yesterday about a study done in the UK where they had found that children who were smacked up until the age of 6 were more successful in later life than children who weren’t smacked. I was reading some of the comments on the post at Her Bad Mother and I started [...]

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