On parenting, discipline, trauma, and learning

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"As the brain stem and limbic system instinctually tells the child that danger is coming and that he needs to seek safety and security in the embrace of the attachment figure, the limbic system also confronts the reality that the attachment figure is, in fact, the source of danger. Safety and danger conflated. Brain chemistry roundly fucked up. " ---Roger Thompson, Associate professor, Stony Brook University

The scientific evidence against spanking, timeouts, and sleep training (Quantz)