My mother never used the ‘Wait until your father comes home’ phrase and most of my friend’s parents didn’t either. Some of my friends discussed this and they said they felt it was passing the buck and why should they have been the bad guys. I could see their point of view on the subject.
I am not fully against discipline for children, I am just concerned that sometimes it goes too far and falls into the relms of abuse
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