Parenting times have changed my friend, I was also raised with the flip flop as an instrument of negative reinforcement, and it was not pretty because it made me gain respect for my parents and my elders through fear.
Today, I think and I am sure that we can be less severe parents, but we can still set limits to our children, we can not raise children who think that life is rosy and everything is nice, there must be a balance because we educate in a society that is not benevolent at all and then that will take its toll.
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