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How to break generational patterns of physical punishment

My grandmother used to beat my mother with a belt and my mother spanked me and now my daughter is pregnant and asking me about discipline.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Each generation must actively choose different responses to childhood behavior rather than automatically repeating learned patterns.

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