Most parents today know that smacking your kids is not a good idea, and now new research out of Harvard University in the United States has shown that it actually changes your child's brain. Dr Vanessa Lapointe is a psychologist and author of Discipline Without DamageVanessa explains the impact smacking can have on your child's behaviour and better ways to discipline your child.. 

<div>Most parents today know that smacking your kids is not a good idea, and now <a href="https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.13565" target="_blank">new research</a> out of Harvard University in the United States has shown that it actually changes your child's brain. Dr Vanessa Lapointe is a psychologist and author of <a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/discipline-without-damage-vanessa-lapointe/book/9781928055105.html?dsa=s1-east&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwyZmEBhCpARIsALIzmnIrjC5N7DiWTJZ5wlgP9uh_5Dm6U9lGsx9zAdBz_gbreuIPDbcSYRAaAmXKEALw_wcB" target="_blank">Discipline Without Damage</a>Vanessa explains the impact smacking can have on your child's behaviour and better ways to discipline your child.. </div>

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