Nearly 1 in 4 kids gets physical rebuke in public

Nearly 1 in 4 kids gets physical rebuke in public

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Twenty-three percent of kids received some kind of physical discipline when they failed to obey their caregiver in public, and moms were more likely to use “negative touch” than dads.

“I was very surprised to see what many people consider a socially undesirable behavior done by nearly a quarter of the caregivers,” says Michigan State University psychologist Kathy Stansbury.

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