**Kelly Clarkson has openly shared her views on parental discipline, revealing she\u2019s \u201cnot above\u201d giving her children occasional spankings.**<\/p>\n\n\n\n
**The singer and talk show host admitted she finds it \u201ctricky\u201d to discipline her kids in public, as smacking has become socially frowned upon.**<\/p>\n\n\n\n
**During a 2018 radio interview, Clarkson explained, \u201cI don\u2019t mean hitting hard \u2013 just a spanking,\u201d noting her own childhood experiences with the practice.**<\/p>\n\n\n\n
**She emphasized her disciplinary approach includes warnings first: \u201cI tell them, \u2018I\u2019m going to spank you if you don\u2019t stop,\u2019 which she says has proven effective.**<\/p>\n\n\n\n
**Clarkson shares two children with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock \u2013 River Rose (8) and Remington Alexander (6) \u2013 and often discusses parenting challenges.**<\/p>\n\n\n\n
**The Grammy winner has also spoken about experiencing \u201cmom guilt,\u201d particularly when work keeps her from her children, admitting some days leave her emotionally overwhelmed.**<\/p>\n\n\n\n
**While Clarkson was open about her disciplinary methods in 2018, it\u2019s unclear if her views on spanking have evolved in recent years.**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
**Kelly Clarkson has openly shared her views on parental discipline, revealing she\u2019s \u201cnot above\u201d giving her children occasional spankings.** **The singer and talk show host admitted she finds it \u201ctricky\u201d to discipline her kids in public, as smacking has become socially frowned upon.** **During a 2018 radio interview, Clarkson explained, \u201cI don\u2019t mean hitting hard…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}