Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. This is the place where we have difficult conversations

and we really sit and ruminate on the things that we think we believe. Now, I was somebody

that believed that, you know, little spanking never hurt anybody until

i met dr. stacey patten she changed my mind and apparently a whole lot of other folk so we opened

it up to the callers up next is that exchange with the listeners of the karen hunter show and dr stacey

patten stay tuned i hope you enjoy holly and mary, you're on with Dr. Stacey Patton.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you, Karen.

I just wanted to co-s-on on what the doctor was saying.

And what's very frustrating for me is that, you know, I had children, I guess, relatively

young.

My first daughter was born when I was 24.

And I was spanked as a child,

I mean, with the belt and the whole nine yards. But I decided when I had a child,

I was never going to hit her that there was nothing that she could do that was so wrong to rise

to the occasion of me putting my hands on her. And when I had my second daughter at 30,

I raised her the exact same way. And both of my children are fine. I learned what their currency was

and took that away from them. When they were, you know, teenagers and wanted to go out with their

friends, they did something they weren't supposed to, then I took that away from them. I spoke to them. I

talked to them. I reasoned with them. And when they were younger and they couldn't be

quote unquote reasoned with, you know, like you were making the example about putting your hand on a

hot stove or those types of things, I felt that it was my responsibility as a parent to create a

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