Lots of people are celebrating the mom who forcibly took her son out of the riots earlier this week by slapping him repeatedly “upside the head”. Many people are praising her parenting. Yet research has told us again and again that hitting your kids is not an effective way to change their behavior. Why does our culture celebrate the unleashing of parental anger? I can only guess it’s because parenting is tough. I’ve got teens, so boy I know it. But hitting is not the answer. If you haven’t seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvDJYD0O8is <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvDJYD0O8is> Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=44456 or send a blank email to leave-44456-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
