I think he's seeing the world through a very distorted mirror.
It's a touchy topic, but your arguments in your journal and his are eloquent and considered. I don't know of a one-size-fits-all-situation solution for children, and I don't have children myself, but the fact that all the different techniques I can think of have at least one expert saying it's wrong and bad, and that all of them can be sensationalised into a radical conclusion that would have the police knocking on your door , shows that it's a complex topic. And there are nuances that you're trying to express that he doesn't seem to be able to understand.
(Interestingly, when making a comparison between smacking a child and beating them senseless, and keeping a child in a carrier and keeping them tied to a bed, he can see that the latter is a stupid line of reasoning, but he can't seem to see it with the former.)
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It's a touchy topic, but your arguments in your journal and his are eloquent and considered. I don't know of a one-size-fits-all-situation solution for children, and I don't have children myself, but the fact that all the different techniques I can think of have at least one expert saying it's wrong and bad, and that all of them can be sensationalised into a radical conclusion that would have the police knocking on your door , shows that it's a complex topic. And there are nuances that you're trying to express that he doesn't seem to be able to understand.
(Interestingly, when making a comparison between smacking a child and beating them senseless, and keeping a child in a carrier and keeping them tied to a bed, he can see that the latter is a stupid line of reasoning, but he can't seem to see it with the former.)