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Once you are familiar with the kids in the foster system, I think you will understand more clearly how any kind physical punishment can be so detrimental to them. I am not against corporal punishment, but for foster children I am. They come from homes that are so dysfunctional, that they need a different kind of behavior modification and not just for the kids who have been physically abused. Emotional abuse and neglect do terrible things to kids and physical punishment means nothing to them.
I would highly suggest you read the books "1,2,3 Magic" and "Love and Logic". Both of these books will show you other ways to get a child to change a behavior without spanking and at the same time teach the child about consequences. Depending on the age of the child I have used sticker charts and time outs without any problem and this with kids who had never had any kind of discipline ever.
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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ-Mohandas Gandhi
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