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Tina Knowles Lawson Says Beyonce Doesn’t Spank Her Kids… But Is Spanking Really Acceptable Anymore? - Bravo

Posted: 14 Aug 2019 12:00 AM PDT

Beyonce's mom, Tina Knowles Lawson, is opening up about how her daughter raises her own kids.

"No spankings," Bey's mom told Us Weekly. "Just really talking to the kids and reasoning with them. I can say, [she] pretty much has my parenting!"

She also hinted at those pregnancy rumors surrounding the singer, and said Bey and her husband, Jay Z, are open to adding to their family. The two entertainers, who married in 2008, welcomed daughter Blue Ivy in 2012 and twins Rumi and Sir in 2017.

Tina added of the family: "[They] have nannies for the kids and their assistants help out too, but they mostly try and bring the kids everywhere. Blue always travels with Beyonce and comes with her when she's working. The twins are getting older and Beyonce has been taking them out a little more too. … They're a very tight-knit family and like to do everything together."

Psychology Today reports that "spanking is correlated strongly and quite exclusively with multiple negative outcomes for children.

"Being spanked is bound to elicit feelings of resentment, hostility, fear and shame in children. Such feelings may be suppressed due to fears of retaliation or rejection on part of the parent, but are bound to emerge later in the form of neurosis or chaotic emotional expression."

PT further explains:

"Children form an 'internal working model' of the world and other people through the constant give and take of daily parent-child interactions. This working model sets the child's expectations about world, self, and others, and is used to guide behavior in new situations and into the future. A child who is routinely spanked when she is in need of comforting and support may internalize a view of the parent as rejecting and herself as unworthy of love, which in time may lead to eroded intimacy with the parent as well as depression and low self esteem. (Research has indeed documented consistent link between a history of spanking and less close parent-child relations, as well as higher risk for emotional disorders such as depression and anxiety)."

It's a good argument for not spanking your kid. So does anyone spank anymore? Well, likely if it happened to you, you will repeat that behavior, if you aren't aware.

"Research has shown that spanking does in fact increase children's stress levels, as well as their risk for a host of future psychological problems," Psychology Today continues. "These findings have prompted some researchers to propose that spanking be added to the accepted list known to predict adult adjustment and health problems, and that we begin to consider spanking a public health concern.

"It is rare for parents who were not spanked as children to begin to spank their children. Spanking, like other behaviors and customs, is readily transmitted from one generation to the next absent a strong counter-current. Research has shown that, particularly when we are under duress, we tend to fall back on our primary responses—those that are well learned, those we grew up with. Parenting is stressful, so parents will often fall back on primary responses, those learned early, from their role models for parenting—their own parents."

In 2018, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended in a policy statement in the journal Pediatrics that parents not spank, hit, or slap their children because it has lasting negative effects.

And the American Psychological Association suggests that those parents whose history involves physical abuse should be counseled by a therapist "not to use corporal punishment as a technique to discipline their children."

"Until researchers, clinicians, and parents can definitively demonstrate the presence of positive effects of corporal punishment, including effectiveness in halting future misbehavior, not just the absence of negative effects, we as psychologists can not responsibly recommend its use," says the report.

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Photos Of Beyonce's Twins Rumi & Sir May Be Rare, But There Have Been Some Special Moments - Bustle

Posted: 19 Jul 2019 12:00 AM PDT

Beyoncé may be known as the world's most famous superstar, but she takes a more private approach when it comes to sharing anything related to her family. So, while photos and details about Beyoncé's twins, Rumi and Sir Carter, are rare, when the family does share those snaps, they're so meaningful.

The first time Beyoncé gave fans a glimpse at her two youngest children was back in July 2017, one month after she gave birth to them. In the instantly iconic Instagram photo, the songstress, looking like an absolute goddess, posed in a blue-and-purple ensemble as she cradled her twins. While Beyoncé and Jay-Z have rarely posted photos of the twins, during their On The Run II tour in June 2018, they did share footage from what appeared to a vow renewal ceremony that naturally included a glimpse of their entire family, per People. And, as the publication noted, concert-goers got to see the couple's twins in the footage highlighting the special moment.

Obviously, many fans weren't able to see the footage firsthand. But, enter Beyoncé's mother Tina Lawson, who posted a screenshot from the video on her own Instagram account in June 2018 to mark Rumi and Sir's first birthday. She captioned the photo with a simple and cute, "My babies❤️❤️❤️"

When the "Single Ladies" singer appeared on the cover of the September 2018 issue of Vogue, fans were treated to a behind-the-scenes video featuring Queen Bey's family. In the video, which featured some, very brief, moments from the set of her Vogue shoot, all of the singer's children — Blue Ivy, Rumi, and Sir — could be seen.

Of course, in addition to posing for photos for Vogue, Beyoncé also opened up for the first time about her experience with having her twins. Following her C-section, she related that she needed time to fully recover, "During my recovery, I gave myself self-love and self-care, and I embraced being curvier."

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In her Vogue interview, the singer said that she came to love her body just as it was, and encouraged everyone else to do the same, "I think it's important for women and men to see and appreciate the beauty in their natural bodies. That's why I stripped away the wigs and hair extensions and used little makeup for this shoot."

Beyoncé continued to be all sorts of relatable, as she discussed her post-pregnancy, self-love journey:

"To this day my arms, shoulders, breasts, and thighs are fuller. I have a little mommy pouch, and I'm in no rush to get rid of it. I think it's real. Whenever I'm ready to get a six-pack, I will go into beast zone and work my ass off until I have it. But right now, my little FUPA and I feel like we are meant to be."

Even though Queen Bey doesn't typically post photos of Rumi and Sir (which is, obviously, completely her prerogative), there have clearly been more than a few occasions were fans have, luckily, been able to get a glimpse of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's adorable kiddos.