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Originally Posted by tore
I also don't think it's uncommon for parents to loose their cool when it comes to corporal punishment. After all, many seem to use it as a way to overpower the child and if what you're doing is not working, one way to try to change that is turn up the intensity of the discipline.
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But that's not necessarily something that's exclusive to corporal punishment.
Lets say you decide not to smack your children, instead perhaps you decide to make them sit down and have a time out. Let's say the child refuses to sit down.
Do you really think that forcing a child to sit down and restraining them until they stay there is any less traumatic than a small tap on the back of the hand?
If anything I would think it was more traumatic.
I don't believe for one second that just because you choose to give your child a small slap as a last resort you're any more or less prone to traumatising a child out of being angry.