Selma Fraiberg - We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defens

We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.

- Selma Fraiberg

topic: Children, Memories, Childhood, Spanking, Parenting Styles