A psychiatrist says don’t spank your children. Praise them instead.
Spanking is an extremely common form of corporal punishment, generally used against a child in response to a perceived bad behavior. It is an old-fashioned form of punishment that has the potential to cause more harm than good. It is clear that spanking may be effective in causing immediate obedience, but this effect is short-lived.
Corporal punishment has been associated with adverse effects in childhood, such as causing the child to …