Is Discipline Non-Existent These Days?

[Sandbox Sally]

I just wanted to chime in here:

I think everyone knows by now that I am PRO gentle discipline and ANTI spanking and shaming for discipline methods.

The books and the studies that say that shaming and corporal punishment aren't effective are not flawed - the parents' interpretation of the studies is flawed.

Not spanking/shouting/shaming does NOT equal not disciplining. So much can be done without causing physical pain or humiliation. As I have rambled on and on about on previous threads, I have, first hand, seen many many children who were raised with gentle discipline methods who have turned out to be beautiful, polite, well rounded citizens.

IMO, the real problem here is not the newfangled way of doing things, but rather, lazy parenting being a more common reality these days.