“If a child is at risk for being physically or significantly emotionally harmed, you have to intervene,” she says. “If a ...

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a common form of child discipline used by parents, back into public scrutiny. "By the the time they reach adolescence, 85 percent of the nation's children will have been, at one point or another ...

At an age when most kids are tucked in bed with bedtime stories or glued to cartoons, 6-year-old Adwik is already chasing discipline ... not from a child still in kindergarten.

Experts and professionals in children's development say that while people often try to discipline their kids, they frequently cross the line into abuse. According to the Advocacy Center for the ...