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...time I tried to get it to wear leather and spank...
...Stern termed the ranch a "scam." "These cancer kids show up, and Imus just lets them work on the ranch for free labor," he reportedly said. "Today's fun activity is, 'You're going to paint the barn, kids.'" Imus' rebuttal? "He could open up his own ranch and spank lesbians and humiliate drunken dwarves or whatever he does," he tells TIME. He adds, "I see great promise for him in his own great scam." Listening, kids? Old-fashioned values at work...
Some parents cling to the idea of punishment; they like the simple physics of it. A quick spank or a minute of time-out for every year of a child's age, for instance, seems like a just response to a transgression. But punishments that grow out of a parent's anger don't work because kids learn mainly that they can really make their parents mad. What kids really need to learn is good judgment: they need to behave well, not because they're afraid of being punished but because of how good it feels to do the right...
...Every parent needs to make up his or her own mind, of course, and in turn they need to be able to live with themselves. But in a country where everyone moans about the violence saturating our television and movie screens, it seems awfully hypocritical for spank-happy parents to introduce their children to violence at such a young...
...issued by Zero to Three, a nonprofit child development organization, in conjunction with the nonprofit Civitas, and Brio, the toy maker, is based on interviews with 3,000 adults, including 1,066 parents of children under the age of six. Sixty-one percent of all respondents felt regular spanking was an acceptable form of punishment. Even more surprising, thirty-seven percent of parents of young children believe it?s acceptable to spank children younger than two. And as a corollary befitting the old adage "spare the rod, spoil the child," fifty-six percent believe a 6-month old baby...