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1 in 4 adults think smacking is necessary to 'properly raise' kids. But attitudes are changing (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you kiss my child or take their underpants off and help them clean their genitals, you've also committed a crime, but I do both regularly to my children.

I just had to clean diarrhea of the floor and then stick him in a bath to clean his... like. Entire lower body, including feet, somehow, because he's got a stomach bug

"Parents shouldn't do anything to their children that they don't want a stranger to do" is a very flawed way to view parenting.

Anyway, I'm home with a sick miserable child today, so I think I'm just super tired and crabby, and I think I know what you actually meant lol.

Anyway, I don't hit my children. I do reserve the right to scoop them up and force them to talk with me if they're being violent. My kid hit someone, and he was off his feet and sitting on my lap in an intense conversation about it shortly after. That's physical interdiction, and that is absolutely necessary sometimes.