Time-Out for Discipline?

How We Got Here, Where We Are, and What’s Next for Parenting’s Most Loaded Word

It used to be simple. Or at least, it looked that way.
A spanking. A time-out. A "because I said so."
Discipline was top-down, authoritarian, unexamined.

Then we started examining. And now? We’re somewhere between gentle parenting burnout, TikTok tantrum explainers, and a creeping fear that our children might not hear the word “no” until college.

So how did…