Book Quote by Kwame Alexander

My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict…

— Larry Fitzgerald

Look at the laws: you can't spank a kid without getting in trouble. That kept me in line!

— Craig Robinson

We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it…I suspect that deep inthe memory of every…

— Selma Fraiberg

Whenever reality reinforces a child's fantasied dangers, the child will have more difficulty in overcoming them...So, while parents may not regard a spanking as…

— Selma Fraiberg

I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their…

— Ayelet Waldman

My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started laughing back at her, then your spankings were…

— Doug Harvey

“Hitting is never the best way to teach a child. Even in the case of real danger - as when a child runs out…

— Peggy O'Mara

Spanking doesn't lead to anything in the child, other than anger, a sense of frustration and humiliation. And parents can do better. I'm not…

— Sean Hannity

Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever and…

— Ashley Montagu

“Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.”

— Asa Don Brown

Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger…

— Alicia F Lieberman

I was always the one pushing the envelope, stirring things up, sometimes getting in trouble. I was always the first one to get a…

— Ryan Frazier