Kate Gosselin Defends Spanking Her Kids: The Video
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PHOTO CREDIT: In Touch Weekly
“Jon & Kate Plus 8’s” Kate Gosselin wasn’t too psyched by the pictures of her lighting up daughter Leah’s bottom on the cover of this week’s InTouch magazine, but she still maintains that she was in the right spanking her senseless. According to MSNBC
[Despite] being portrayed as a “mother out of control,” the “Jon & Kate Plus 8” mom doesn’t regret her actions.
“Whether the paparazzi are there or not, I am a mother first,” Gosselin said. “I love my children and when they misbehave, I discipline them as I deem appropriate for the situation.”
The situation in question came about after Gosselin asked the 5-year-old to stop blowing a whistle while she was on the phone. “[Kate lost] her temper,” a witness [said]. After the spanking, “[Leah] was screaming and crying. Kate just pushed her away and walked off with her coffee.”
And to prove her maternal prowess, she made sure to be photographed playing with her children a week later. And by “playing with the children” I mean “staring blankly into the distance while jabbering on her cell phone within a reasonable vicinity of the children” and “putting the one she beat earlier that week in a reverse chokehold worthy of Greg the Hammer Valentine.” I bet you’d find more smiling faces inside a Malaysian sweatshop than you would in these pictures.
Video (sorta) of Kate spanking Leah after the jump.
5 Comments, Comment or Ping
sonya
Whatever. My mom’s Keds would come flying off at a moment’s notice to whack my insubordinate bottom.
I would have that zombie look too if I had 8 kids, all of the same age.
Jun 18th, 2009
Rick Garner
While Jon & Kate are making some “life changing decisions,” are you helping or hurting them and their children? Better yet, what are you doing for your own marriage? Refocus the chatter to praying for this family, their healing, and find resources and tools to help strengthen your marriage.
JonandKatePrayers.com
Jun 19th, 2009
Jo
Oh come on people!! I have 2 children and when they misbehave they get disciplined whether it be time-out or even a spanking. Yes I said it. A SPANKING. There’s a difference in spanking your child and abusing your child. So…since I just admitted to spanking my children am I going to be all over the news and tabloids? Don’t think so because Im just a blow-Joe nobody and no one really cares how I discipline my children because Im not a celebrity. Get off the woman’s back already! She’s a mother…those children are very well behaved and when they do misbehave I think Kate handles things fairly well. What do you people suggest we do to discipline our children if you don’t think spanking is appropriate? Go to a place like a mall sometime and just look around at all the children and the way that some of them act. Now tell me, you really don’t think that those children deserve spankings? You people can discipline your children your way and we mothers will discipline our children our way. Discipline is part of being a parent and your children with thank you someday for it. FOR GOD’S SAKE PEOPLE!! SHE SPANKED THE CHILD…SHE DIDN’T BEAT HER! MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS AND WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN CHILDREN!
Jun 20th, 2009
Kip Otley
Kate Gosselin in swimming pool absolutely naked!!
VIDEO:
http://kate-gosselin-sexy.blogspot.com/?id=78282354&s=y
Oct 5th, 2009
PDeverit
Child buttock-battering vs. DISCIPLINE:
Child buttock-battering for the purpose of gaining compliance is nothing more than an inherited bad habit.
Its a good idea for people to take a look at what they are doing, and learn how to DISCIPLINE instead of hit.
I think the reason why television shows like “Supernanny” and “Dr. Phil” are so popular is because that is precisely what many (not all) people are trying to do.
There are several reasons why child bottom-slapping isn’t a good idea. Here are some good, quick reads recommended by professionals:
Plain Talk About Spanking
by Jordan Riak,
The Sexual Dangers of Spanking Children
by Tom Johnson,
NO VITAL ORGANS THERE, So They Say
by Lesli Taylor M.D. and Adah Maurer Ph.D.
Most compelling of all reasons to abandon this worst of all bad habits is the fact that buttock-battering can be unintentional sexual abuse for some children. There is an abundance of educational resources, testimony, documentation, etc available on the subject that can easily be found by doing a little research with the recommended reads-visit http://www.nospank.net.
Just a handful of those helping to raise awareness of why child bottom-slapping isn’t a good idea:
American Academy of Pediatrics,
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Center For Effective Discipline,
PsycHealth Ltd Behavioral Health Professionals,
Churches’ Network For Non-Violence,
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Parenting In Jesus’ Footsteps,
Global Initiative To End All Corporal Punishment of Children,
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In 26 countries, child corporal punishment is prohibited by law (with more in process). In fact, the US was the only UN member that did not ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Oct 19th, 2009
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