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Title: You can be a loving and effective parent without spanking
Review: As a child psychologist who specializes in parenting practices, there are many reasons to find ways to avoid spanking your children, while still remaining firm and loving in your discipline. Further, other techniques are more consistently effective than spanking, and are not potentially harmful.There are large bodies of research pointing to the harmful effects of spanking which include increasing your child's level of misbehavior.I have found that while there are some parents who believe very strongly in spanking, most parents wish they could avoid doing it and have conflicted feelings about it. If you would like to learn more about more effective discipline practices, I would highly recommend SOS for Parents or Parenting the Strong-willed Child. These books are based on long standing and well researched practices.
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