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Show jYour Baby And Mine By MTBTL1 MITIB CLOUD CORPORAL PDNUHMINT li A CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT TtM disadvantage of corporal punishment pun-ishment enormously outweigh any possible advantages. Anything we can tMch child by mean e( pain, w tan teach Juat aa effectively In other way. Ingenuity, calm epirlt and alnrara dealre la undaratand why a child acla aa ha doaa, will ra-ault ra-ault In laaa amotlonal method da viaad to convince him of what we, aa paranta, conaldar to ba daalrabl eo-cial eo-cial conduct. CRUEL PUNISHMENT This explain why answering the following question Is hopeless. Mrs. E. M. C. ask: "What do you think of paranta who would whip a 3-year-old with a rubber fly swatter until hi leg and buttocks war black and blue? The child la a darling, but he is ao terrified of being whipped that ha hardly smiles any snore, and be used to ba ao happy. No child of two coitl da anything meriting such treatment If the whipping are actually injurious to tha child's body, the humane society will step m. But unfortunately, no public organisation will voluntarily meddle when It la a question solely of the child spirit being crushed, his faith In his parents' love and understanding under-standing being destroyed. BETWEEN TWO FIRES Whan a mother asks me to exprea my opinion about some type of behavior be-havior which has been perpetrated by a parent, I wonder If h reads the column. Consistent resdera of this depsrtment know what 1 think about every subject related to child care and training. Naturally, what I think about phyaical care and training la tha result of studying tha authorities on those ub)ect. What I think about Darentel atiitudea Is the result of aim- ilsr study, flavored, a It must be, with what I am as aa individual and as a mother. On the subject of corporal punishment punish-ment everyona know that X do not believe in it What they may not know I Jiow quickly an expression of thi opinion flick reader on the raw. Tha parent who spanks resents being told that spanking is unnecessary. unneces-sary. The. parent who does not spank is indignant if it Is conceded that one spanking, administered to Impress the child with the extreardinarlly qualities quali-ties of some behavior, will not nee-eaaarily nee-eaaarily ruin him. ONE LEADS TO MORE But ps rents seldom stop with on spanking. As far as they are concerned, con-cerned, anything a child doea which makes them angry Is an extraordinary extraordi-nary situation. Because of the emotional emo-tional reaction to disobedience, clear thinking on tha subject ia Impossible Person who are not parent likewise like-wise have atrong Idea on tha ub-ject ub-ject I have no quarrel with parent who differ with me. But it 1 hope-leas hope-leas to marshal argument to impress parent who are capable of the stupidity stu-pidity Mrs. E. M. C. describe. Such punishment degrade the parent even more, U possible, than they injure the child. But who can convince them of that? |