New Study Reports Spanking Kids Can Lower IQ And Harm Development

A new study by Canadian researchers shows spanking children can do more harm than previously thought, including causing “long-term developmental damage and may even lower a child’s IQ.” Currently banned in 32 countries, physical punishment is still an accepted practice in large parts of the world. The researchers behind this study hope parents can take the discipline discussion out of an ethical realm and begin to look at the issue from a medical point of view.
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Not Again—Hot Sauce Teacher In Hot Water

You might have read about the Hot Sauce Mom, who got into trouble last year for her unusual punishment of making her son hold hot sauce in his mouth for lying to her. It was kind of a modern “I’ll wash your mouth out with soap” kind of thing. But although the soap-in-the-mouth threat (and sometimes follow-through) was tolerated by many back in the day, this new hot sauce punishment trend is not feeling the love, so to speak. In the midst of all the controversy, there is now an elementary school teacher trying to get into the act.
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The Awesome Liebster Blog Award

Yeah! Kat from Keeping Sane nominated me for the Liebster Blog Award, so I get to have one of those fancy bloggie badges on my page. Now I look all official and stuff. But seriously, thanks to Kat for thinking of Five Things At Once, and I suppose thus there is some bookkeeping to do.

The Liebster Blog Award is all about giving recognition to worthy blogs and raising their visibility. In theory, it is meant to bring attention to blogs with less than 200 followers. As Kat wrote, ” In German—“liebster” means “dear,” from the verb “lieber” [to love]. A Liebster Foundation? I have no clue, but it’s a great idea.”
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