Ordinarily I’d just tip this to some parenting website but we all know my opinion on that this week. Here’s the article. I don’t have any comment except that I don’t find this very surprising.
Children in homes full of books and educational games are less likely to get spanked, new research shows.
Recent studies have found that corporal punishment can cause significant antisocial behavioral, such as lying, cheating, and hitting, in children as they grow older.
A home environment that is intellectually stimulating gives children an opportunity to work through and practice their emotions, think through the consequences of their actions and imagine possibilities for alternative actions in the future, he said. “Allowing children to stretch their brains in that kind of way is allowing children to behave less anti-socially down the road,” he said.
The researchers also found that Protestants were more likely to spank than parents with other religious affiliations.
The neighborhood, geographic region or economic status of a family made no difference in the use of spanking, but children’s odds of getting whacked decreases as they grow older by 3 percent per year, Grogan-Kaylor said. And parents of black children were more likely to use corporal punishment than parents of white children.
2 Comments
January 25, 2007 at 6:59 pm
i have books, educational games, etc. and i will not hesitate to give the smack down if need be!~ LOL
please don’t call CPS on me
January 25, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Well I know who runs your house, Tanyetta
He’s about 3 ft tall and stylin’
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