You and Your Fiancé Want to Determine Whether You Are

Essay

You and your fiancé want to determine whether you are truly compatible before you get married and so have been discussing your ideas about parenting. Your fiancé tells you that when he was a child, his parents used only one form of discipline - spanking - and because he seemed to turn out all right, that's how he plans to discipline his children. You, however, would prefer not to use physical punishment and, instead, want to rely more on reinforcement, time-out, and reasoning. How would you 1) explain these alternative parenting techniques to your fiancé, and 2) tell him some of your concerns about the use of punishment?