Nobody will miss that Iron Fist. Cage was cool, though.

My goal would be to find a way to quickly calm him down (even if it involves spanking)

Melanie, maybe we could have a parenting series here, because there seems to be a HUGE gap between the “almost parents,” who will have kids in a year or two but have friends with kids, and their understanding of how child development and behavior shaping/modeling works. We just went to a school district sponsored…

Anonymousjon, your statement that your first impulse when a child is upset is to calm them down is interesting. Do you feel uncomfortable when you feel strong emotion? One very important thing which it appears you haven’t yet read about is teaching children (and the adults they will become) that emotions aren’t some…

Clearly you have no desire to actually learn anything and are just going to do what you think is correct if you still think spanking is a useful tool. You’re from the South, huh?

Can that technique be used on Donald Trump, since he is a 4 year old with bad behavior?

I think you are taking the psychologist’s quote the wrong way. He is saying that children pick up on the way that their parents treat them, and they in turn use those same techniques to exert control over their peers. So if you hit your child, you are teaching them that hitting people is how you get what you want, and…