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>Hi Maria, > >Glad to meet you. I am Mom of a seven/almost eight >year old DD and 18 month old DS. I also work as the >youth director in a large Catholic parish. This has >given me some insight into the status of parental >discipline these days. And I must say the trend is in >our direction! > > I was raised in a strict family, and have always >supported spanking, even as a kid and through the >social worker program in college (which was >overwhelmingly liberal). > > But, our daughter was adopted, which unintentionally >caused us to be lax in discipline. But it became >obvious we were doing her no favors. We started >spanking more frequently and vigorously. She is better >behaved and happier. We will not make that mistake >with her brother, or other children we may be blessed >with. > >Spanking is now my only punishment used when >discipline (which means learning, the word coming from >the same Greek word as disciple) calls for punishment. >When the anti=family agenda attacked spanking they >were actually attacking all forms of parental >punishment. Indeed today the "experts" openly say >there should be no punishments at all. Spanking is >really my only punishment. I use timouts, but it is >not really a punishment, but used as a time to cool >down and reflect. > >Thank you for your well worded synopsis of the >philosophy we share! > >Taylor

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