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Spanking. Even the word makes me cringe a bit. So yeah, I have my own childhood issues with this, which definitely come into play when I read a headline like "Spanking Can be an Effective Component of Discipline." Hello? What century is this? I thought we were abandoning corporal punishment...

I've been waiting a good while now for just the right moment to use te phrase "threw up in my mouth a little" and I think I've finally found it, thanks to the Naughty Spot. At least it's good for something . Because that's the only vaguely redeeming quality I can see for this...

Motherhood Uncensored (love the condoms) has a nice rant about those rowdy kids who smack your child and take away their toy while the parents look on benignly. It's a very self-aware send-up, and she has much more rancor for the parents who sit back and mumble, "Now, now, don't hit" than the actual...

Seems like the topic of spanking is everywhere on the internet these days , and why not? There is probably no hotter hot button issue in parenting than spanking. The Maya's Mom folks are asking people to "sound off" on the debate in light of a recently proposed anti-spanking law in California . Go on...

When I read something like this post from a mom who's doing the "work God placed on [her] keyboard" and has thereby appointed herself an expert in parenting, my blood boils, I want to vomit, and I cannot help but sadly wonder what's to become of her children and the children of people who listen to her...