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About me

I'm lucky enough to be married to a beautiful woman and the mother of our twin daughters. I have written professionally for many years in venues including advertising, journalism, business planning, government contract proposals, grant proposals, and fiction and nonfiction literature.

I enjoy fast cars and smart women and have driven the former to wins in competition and the latter to distraction in competition. I'm an incorrigble Navy brat, have a Masters in Psychology, worked in clandestine ops for the US Government, and played drums and bass in Rock-n-Roll bands in the eighties.

I've been a busboy, layout artist, graphic designer, drug counselor, cartoonist, and songwriter. I have authored two fiction novels and three books about life that can be seen at www.mgpatrick.com.

I live in South Florida with my wife and daughters and a Shiba Inu dog and a Calico cat.

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Parenting & Pregnancy > Child Discipline Strategies Does spanking work for disciplining kids?: 1 of 31

Yes, spanking a child is a useful tool in the kit of childrearing. Its usefulness depends, however, on the sobriety, the mental stability, and the common sense of the disciplining parent. We all have to learn how to play nicely with other children. We don't do it automatically. We're born determined to survive. We're born selfish and demanding and impolite and have to learn how to work with others in mutually complementary ways. We must all suffer mistakes and adjust. How each family manages that is up to that family. Punishment is pain, whether psychological or physical. One is slow and t...
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