Discipline

@Guardian As long as it doesn’t require violence towards them. People who strike their children should lose them. 😞

@bijouxbroussard I was spanked, and I survived.

@Guardian People survive all kinds of brutality,
Doesn’t mean it was healthy for them. 🥺

@Guardian There's a right way and a wrong way to teach "discipline", though. I'm only just starting to accept that, not only was a lot of the "discipline" I received as a child abusive... but, a lot of what I witnessed my friends go through was abusive, too.

You don't throw your son across the room into the sofa by one arm to "discipline" him.

You don't humiliate your daughter to "discipline" her.

You don't cause a child to fear you as a means of "discipline"

No child should have to dissociate to protect themselves from their parents.