Remember back in your day if you disobeyed your parents you’d most likely get a smack on the posterior with a wooden spoon?  Heck, I remember clearly the principal of my elementary school proudly displaying “the strap” on his wall. I once nearly experienced the strap myself, it was my first taste of “one person’s word against another’s” when I stepped in to break up a fight...

I have to admit, the primary motivation behind writing this post was due to Google analytics. For months, one of the most popular search strings entered as a referral for our site has been “why is spanking functional?” So, I figured, what the hell, let’s write an article about that so we rank higher on the search results and gain more visitors. Shameless, I know. So, without further background, here...

I recently read an interesting New York Times article entitled “For Some Parents, Shouting Is the New Spanking” by Hilary Stout, where the author observes how parents now tend to use yelling as a preferable form of discipline over spanking or hitting. As fathers, I think for most tend to assume the role of disciplinarian in the family.  When I was a child my mother constantly repeated the phrase, “Just...