I Am A Strict Mom

@Annie1899 My girlfriend told me that while a friend of hers was going through her mom's belongings after she died, the friend came across the paddle that her mom used. Shortly afterwards, no seems to know what had happened to that paddle. I suspect one of the siblings took it.

@Annie1899 Like I was saying, after I got over my permissive parenting phase, I was sure disappointed Mom had lost hers ☹

@Annie1899 I'm pretty sure one of the other girls will get it. Probably my oldest. The only question is do I give it to her as a wedding present ;) 😈

@beckychandler Becky it might be nice to have but at least you don't have a flood of memories about how you used to feel when the brush came out each time you have to get it! I think my mom spanked me longer than yours did too so I have some rather embarrassing memories of having to get that same brush as a teenager

@Kathryn05 @Kathryn05 Or at the baby shower?

@Annie1899 Another good time to give it to her your right!

@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.” [b]~ Kathleen Berchelmann, MD[/b],in [i]“To Spank or Not to Spank” [/i]@ [b][i]Catholic Mom [/i][/b][c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2vGITfq[/c]

Dr. 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[i] “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.'”[/i]

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

@Annie1899 give to your daughter

@beckychandler The "American College of Pediatricians" is merely a handful of socially-conservative pediatricians. This ersatz "professional organization" is so tiny their entire national membership could probably meet in a church basement. They refuse to divulge their actual membership numbers. The media (with the exception of Fox News) ignores them for good reason. They constitute an attempt to confuse the public into thinking they are the pediatric profession's national organization when they aren't.

You confused the ACP with the [i]American Academy of Pediatrics[/i], the bonafide, 66,000-strong, professional association with which the ACP clearly hoped you'd confuse them. The A[u]A[/u]P, the [i]real[/i] professional association of pediatricians, took a position against all forms of corporal punishment of children a couple decades ago:

[b] "Because of the negative consequences
of spanking and because it has been
demonstrated to be no more effective than
other approaches for managing undesired
behavior in children, the American Academy
of Pediatrics recommends that parents be
encouraged and assisted in developing methods
other than spanking in response to undesired
behavior."

-American Association of Pediatrics policy
paper RE9740, April 1998, pp 723-728[/b].


The tiny ACP hold predictable "traditional values" positions on a variety of issues, including gay parenting, gay marriage, adoption by gay couples, pornography, keeping marijuana illegal, "abstinence-only" sex education, "therapy" to "cure" gay teenagers, gender dysphoria in children, abortion, and spanking - most of which differ from positions by the 66,000-member AAP. And by adopting a name similar to the A[u]A[/u]P, the ACP strives to give their political-agenda-driven views the appearance of a professional imprimatur they plainly lack.

The myth-busting site, snopes.com, calls the ACP "an official-sounding but fringe group of politically motivated pediatricians.":
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/americas-pediatricians-gender-kids/

The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the ACP as "a fringe anti-LGBT hate group that masquerades as the premier U.S. association of pediatricians.":
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-college-pediatricians

They have even been accused of deliberately misrepresenting research by the author of such research:

Statement from NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., in Response to the American College of Pediatricians - April 15, 2010

"It is disturbing for me to see special interest groups distort my scientific observations to make a point against homosexuality. The American College of Pediatricians pulled language out of context from a book I wrote in 2006 to support an ideology that can cause unnecessary anguish and encourage prejudice. The information they present is misleading and incorrect, and it is particularly troubling that they are distributing it in a way that will confuse school children and their parents."

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110727115017/http://www.nih.gov/about/director/04152010_statement_ACP.htm

Here is another example:
http://www.citypages.com/news/university-of-minnesota-professors-research-hijacked-6725473


"The American College of Pediatricians" is a ruse, attempting to fool the public, Becky Chandler. And you fell for it. Ironically, if a [i]child[/i] engaged in the kind of deceptive behaviors which are the ACP's stock and trade, the ACP would recommend that the child be given a good spanking. 🙄

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