In Africa specifically Nigeria, it rare to hear that a child did not undergo any form of discipline which include smacking or caning. Even you reading the post at this moment might have undergone one form of discipline or the other from your parents. Well a new research is supposedly...


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They should go and sit down with their research. there is no way you would distance spanking from training of a child. The issue is spanking with intent to correct. And minimizing the frequency so the child doesnt get used to it. because when they do they would become rebellious, and in their mind they would be like nothing dey happen highest thing i would be spanked .