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Bill Requiring Schools to Get Parents' Permission Before Spanking Kids Passes Texas House

by Tom Henderson, Posted May 13th 2011 2:30PM

Some 40 Texas school districts -- including Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington -- already ban paddling. Credit: Getty Images
Oh, c'mon on, is this Texas or Mister Rogers' Neighborhood?
A bill before the Texas Legislature would require ...Texas debates the property etiquette for whupping a kid's backside.
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Do Wading Pools Need Lifeguards?

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Jan 10th 2009 1:01PM

Regular swimming pools always have lifeguards on duty. We like to mock them for their small red shorts, white noses (due to the zinc oxide) and general resemblance to the characters on Baywatch. But, as we all know, lifeguards, well, save lives. Yep, ...
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Mom and aunt arrested for spanking 12-year-old

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Mar 8th 2007 4:01PM

Nancy Simpson's twelve-year-old nephew was "being bad". Luckily, she just happened to have a wooden backscratcher wrapped in electrical tape handy. While the boy's mother watched, she spanked him. That'll learn him. Only, they then left the boy home ...
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Return of the paddle

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 2nd 2006 1:02PM

I don't know, I thought it was pretty much understood that hitting kids is a bad idea -- teaching them that the way to deal with problems is to hit just doesn't make sense. I also thought that corporal punishment simply wasn't allowed in public ...
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