Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Father disciplining toddler That definitively onomatopoeic word has been bounding about this week: smacking. The very sound of the ...

A woman in West Virginia has been arrested on abuse charges after she allegedly hurt a young boy several ways, including beating him with a wooden paddle that she referred to as "the attitude adjuster ...

I sprinted into the house after my sobbing six year old and once I was within touching distance, I drew back my hand and gave him a stinging slap on the back of his thigh. Maybe it shocked him into ...

A photo of a child "running the gauntlet" to enter a local Woolworths store has sparked a discussion about a controversial new in-store security feature. A parent claimed their child was "smacked" by ...