93. Is It Okay To Smack My Child?
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Spanking Children
Over the generations, hitting children has been the go-to method of keeping them 'under control'. Punishing and controlling instead of teaching and guiding. What are the effects of physical abuse on a small child? How does it affect them later in life? LeeAnn Summerfield tells her story of growing up in a physically and emotionally abusive household and how those effects last a lifetime.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to how my parents raised me, I'm Dawn Chitty. |
| 0:09.9 | When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls and the direction our life |
| 0:16.1 | takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives. |
| 0:22.6 | And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what their parents brought |
| 0:28.0 | to their lives and that's the cycle of families. |
| 0:32.6 | I have always craved connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you |
| 0:39.9 | you, what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. |
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| 0:59.4 | What happened to them, how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite |
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| 1:22.1 | Hello, my beautiful friends and welcome back to the podcast. |
| 1:26.0 | In days gone by, smacking a child was part of life. |
| 1:29.6 | If kids did something wrong, it seemed the only way known to correct that behaviour was |
| 1:34.9 | to hit them, to use force to punish, control. |
| 1:38.8 | In other words, it was about making them do what we said rather than nurturing them as humans. |
| 1:45.2 | We now understand the deep psychological wounding that happens when kids are physically |
| 1:49.6 | abused, but the message isn't getting through to everyone. |
| 1:54.7 | And personally, I would love to see the word punish removed from the way we bring up |
| 2:01.0 | our kids, because kids are kids, they're growing and they're slowly forming into fully |
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