Four Alternatives to Hitting Children

By Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.

National surveys show that over the past twenty years, more than 90 percent of parents with small children admit to using one or more forms of corporal punishment.

Corporal punishment includes pinching, shaking, slapping, punching, a spanking, hitting, and beating children with an object such as a belt.

Studies have shown that using these methods can result in serious and tragic longer-term effects such as the children becoming abusive parents themselves

So what can be done instead?

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