Hey there, Stephen Maloney from Free Domain, hope you're doing well.

So a little article here, spanking can be an appropriate form discipline, a child discipline.

By Jared Pinkleton, who I think is a writer and a minister, and this is from a little while ago about 10 years ago in 2014,

and I wanted to just put forward some of the philosophical objections to it, got the truth about spanking which goes into a lot of the

science and sort of outcome things. You can also look at my interviews with Dr Elizabeth Grushov for the reasons why spanking is sort of counterproductive based on studies.

Oh, sorry, big bug.

So this writer writes,

NFL running back Adrian Peterson's recent arrest

were allegedly abusing his four-year-old son have once again sparked the debate

over whether spanking is an appropriate form of discipline.

So, discipline, an appropriate form of discipline.

So, the word discipline here is really, really interesting.

Now, I think we can all understand that one of the main purposes of parenting

is to teach children self-discipline, right? To teach children self-discipline.

Now if you are trying to teach a child a particular skill, it has to be a skill that they can

reproduce in their own lives, right?

So when you are the dad, you teach child how to ride a bike, right?

Sort of a big thing that parents do. And you teach a kid how to ride a bike and

you show the kid how the bike works, you show how you ride the bike, and then you get the kid on the bike, you hold the seat, you know how it goes, right?

Because the purpose of transferring the skill of riding a bike is achieved when the child

can competently ride the bike independent of the adult. In other words, when the child has recreated the skill in his or her own body, right?

So you say it's an appropriate form of discipline.

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