Website for parents who spank

Verified by Psychology Today. Evidence-Based Living. As a first-time parent, I was completely surprised one day when I was nearly overcome by the urge to spank my two-year-old. I should have known better than to take a tired toddler shopping for clothes. But that was cold comfort as I stood in the middle of a crowded store watching my son throw merchandise on the floor. At the time, I was lucky to have read some of the research on physical punishment. Because—as I learned that day—it takes a lot of knowledge to overcome the feelings I had toward my little guy in that moment.

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Parents spank their children much more often than they admit and for trivial misbehaviors, suggest the just-published results of a study based on real-time home audio recordings. The study also found that parents tend to strike their children out of anger and quite quickly after the children misbehaved — in other words, not as last resort. The children in the study who were hit or slapped by their parents typically misbehaved again within 10 minutes. On average, parents hit or spanked just half a minute after the conflict began. The findings were not officially published, however, until Monday, when they appeared in the Journal of Family Psychology.

And one of the hardest parts, the survey found, is discipline: figuring how to instill in a small human the qualities that will ensure he or she becomes a healthy and responsible human. Or will just make it to elementary school without poisoning or garroting themselves or their siblings. The survey showed, encouragingly, that most parents understood that.