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Annie1899 “When my mother had her first child my grandmother visited her in the hospital and gave her a wooden spanking paddle. 'Some day you will need this,' she told my mother. I heard my mother tell this story again and again throughout my childhood to justify her use of corporal punishment. As a child, I was determined never to spank my children. 'Some day you will understand,' my mother told me.”
~ Kathleen Berchelmann, MD,in
“To Spank or Not to Spank” @
Catholic Mom http://bit.ly/2vGITfqDr. Berchelmann is a pediatrician who in this article says when she became a mom she did indeed spank, but later decided it was not for her. But, in the short article she goes over the spanking research in a fair objective way, which is never seen in mainstream media articles on corporal punishment of children.
I jumped for joy when Dr. Berchelmann mentioned that
“The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) feels that 'Disciplinary spanking by parents, when properly used, can be an effective component in an overall disciplinary plan with children.'” The ACP, although an organization of some 60,000 pediatricians and pediatric researchers, is totally ignored when we get all the news reports which more than imply that the “science is in” on spanking and it is the worst possible thing a parent could do.
Last January the ACP issued a warning about the No-Spank fake research: https://similarworlds.com/2327115-I-Am-A-Strict-Mom/596949-Recently-there-has-been-a-tsunami-of-reports-in
