Hello there everyone. My name's Andrew and I'm Cassie and this is the

Culeps English podcast.

You're listening to simplified speech, which is the Culep series featuring clear, natural,

and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics.

Today I'm joined by my co-host, Cassie.

Hello, Cassie.

Hey Andrew and hey listeners, hope you guys are doing well.

Cassie, today we have a pretty... Hey listeners, hope you guys are doing well.

Cassie, today we have a pretty important and a little bit serious topic.

And it's one that's often debated in North America, and it's a topic that I was talking with some of my students about recently and it kind of brought up some interesting conversations so I thought

yeah let's talk about it in a simplified speech episode as well.

The topic is methods of disciplining or punishing children

for their bad behavior. And I kind of wanted to talk about just our perspectives, you know, as students and kids growing up in homes in North America.

And I think it really varies from family to family to family.

So I think Cassie, maybe we will have different experiences,

but probably have a

fascinating conversation at the same time.

Yeah, I think it'll be interesting to talk about as teachers as well.

However, you teach almost adults, so it's a little different where I'm in the school setting.

These guys are still kids.

Yeah, and I said disciplining children, but I think in the context of this episode we can think of children as being, you know, from

like K to 12, for example, or maybe even younger, until they finish high school, for example.

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