An entire generation grew up unacquainted with the thwack of paddle against bottom. ~ Jonathan Yardley American Heritage (April 1985)

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Some physicians who have called him excessively permissive just didn't understand and gave his understanding approach to child rearing a negative label. He was…

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that i…

'[P]ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, th…

What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with the outfits that need only one a…