When it comes to parenting, the Internet is filled with plenty of big little feelings.
Screentime, sleep training, sugar intake, time outs—you name it, there’s a group of people ready to detail why you’re wrong.
Which is why childhood friends Deena Margolin and Kristin Gallant turned their clinical expertise into Big Little Feelings, the must-follow parenting platform that counts Blake Lively, Sophie Turner, Eva Mendes and Mandy Moore among their 3.5 million Instagram fans—and it’s why they’re careful not to deliver any hard and fast rules about how to raise kids.
But there’s one old-school technique they’re more than willing to smack down.
“Please don’t spank your kids,” Kristin implored in a joint interview with E! News. Decades after corporal punishment was considered the norm, “A huge amount of people rely on spanking to get better behavior,” she added. “And there is so much research showing how much damage it causes.”