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No-cane parenting: How to hold boundaries
Hitting your child in the name of discipline does not work and can backfire. There is a harder but better way to raise your children.
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There needs to be a reframe of how we typically view challenging behaviour: Children aren’t being difficult; they’re having a difficult time.
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Kelly Tay
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Parents, the line has been drawn: If your child walks away from disciplinary sessions with cane marks on their skin – that’s abuse.
So says the Ministry of Social and Family Development
