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Tina Knowles Larson Says Beyonce Doesn’t Spank Her Kids… But Is Spanking Really Acceptable Anymore? - Bravo
Tina Knowles says she 'would love' to design costumes for a rumored Destiny's Child reunion - Yahoo Lifestyle
Beyonce's Reportedly Planning A Secret Destiny's Child Reunion Because This 'Impressed' Her - International Business Times

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

Posted: 14 Aug 2019 08:10 AM PDT

Beyonce's mom, Tina Knowles Larson, 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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Tina Knowles says she 'would love' to design costumes for a rumored Destiny's Child reunion - Yahoo Lifestyle

Posted: 13 Aug 2019 11:18 AM PDT

Tina Knowles Lawson talked motherhood, mentoring, and social media with Yahoo Lifestyle at Beautycon in Los Angeles. (Photo by Prince Williams/ Filmmagic)

Tina Knowles — Ms. Tina to her most ardent fans — is mother to Beyoncé and Solange, but hit records impress her less than her daughters' passions for their own children.

On Saturday, Knowles was a featured speaker at Beautycon Festival LA, a two-day trade show offering the latest in makeup, Instagramable art, and panel discussions with beauty influencers and celebrities in Los Angeles. At the conference, Knowles, who recently won an award for founding the WACO Theater Center and its youth mentorship program Tina's Angels, hosted a fireside chat about empowerment.

"The girls I mentor are so resilient — some have been through pure hell but they can snap back with attention and love," the 65-year-old fashion designer tells Yahoo Lifestyle. "It's amazing to me, the strength that you can find within yourself no matter the obstacles."

As the mom to two Grammy-winning superstars, Knowles has experience helping young girls meet their potential. When Beyoncé and Solange were little, Knowles took quality time seriously, giving each girl uninterrupted attention on their own reserved day. "As Solange got older, I would spend Wednesdays with her and help with homework and do those types of things and just devote that day to her, and then one day to Bey," Knowles said in June during the Summit21 conference in Atlanta.

Tina Knowles designed the colorful clothing Destiny's Child. Pictured L - R: Kelly Rowland, Tina Knowles, Beyonce, Michelle Williams. (Photo: Getty Images)

And she's proud of her daughters for passing on her parenting method. Beyoncé has three children with husband Jay-Z — Blue Ivy, 7, and twins Sir and Rumi, 2 — and Solange has a 14-year-old son named Daniel with her ex-husband Daniel Smith.

"They practice a lot of the things that I did with them [growing up]," Lawson tells Yahoo Lifestyle. "As far as spending time [together], Solange has one child and Beyoncé has three, and I'll see her with Blue going to a premiere or spending a day with her, and then she has time with the other kids. So they did take that [from me] and I'm really proud of them."

Her discipline tactics are also handed down. Knowles told Us Weekly that Beyoncé has a no-spanking policy. "...Just really talking to the kids and reasoning with them. I can say, [she] pretty much has my parenting!"

And if rumors of a Destiny's Child reunion are true, Knowles is here for fashion tips, having designed many of the group's colorful, matching outfits. In August, a source told the U.K. Sun that Bey is "desperate" to reunite the chart-topping group which announced its disbandment in 2005.

Tina Knowles raised two fierce daughters in Solange and Beyonce. (Photo: Getty Images)

While Kelly Rowland seemed surprised by the report, telling ET on Saturday, "That was news to me, just as much as it was to you! I was like, 'Oh! My god, a tour is happening! Someone call me.'" and Knowles denied having an "inside scoop," her sketch board is ready.

"Would I design for them? If they allow me," Knowles tells Yahoo Lifestyle. "They've outgrown me over the years, so they might not want me to do it. I would love to do at least one outfit for them."

Right now, Knowles will stick to running her own Instagram page with 2 million followers, who get a kick out of her "Corny joke time" segment, despite Beyoncé having asked her mom to tone it down. The hilarity includes wisecracks such as, "What do you call a fake noodle? An im-pasta" and "Why was the baby strawberry crying? Because his mom and dad were a jam...a jar of jam."

Knowles tells Yahoo Lifestyle that she collects jokes everywhere she goes, but "I can't give you my sources." However, she reveals that the tradition is a tribute to her late brother who told "terrible" jokes that made everyone happy.

"People responded like crazy, so I kept on doing them," she tells Yahoo Lifestyle. "They're fun and lift people's spirits."

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Beyonce's Reportedly Planning A Secret Destiny's Child Reunion Because This 'Impressed' Her - International Business Times

Posted: 05 Aug 2019 12:00 AM PDT

Beyoncé has done a lot of exciting things lately, including meeting up with Meghan Markle at the London premiere of "The Lion King." However, that reportedly has not stopped her from secretly working on reuniting with her former girl group, Destiny's Child.

According to the Sun, the "Spirit" singer wants the upcoming reunion to "include brand new music and a lucrative tour of the U.S. and Europe next year."

When speaking to the publication, an insider revealed that the Grammy winner believes the timing is just right for the surprise announcement to take place in 2020.

"She saw the success of the Spice Girls tour and wants to replicate that - but far bigger and better," the source divulged, adding that meetings with Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams have taken place and they have been "discussing what they can do."

The group is said to be interested in doing a tour that is short enough for them to fit into their schedules, but extensive enough so that fans can be sure to attend a concert.

As reported by the Mirror, there was a rumored reunion six years ago, but the scheduling proved to be too complicated at that time. However, Beyoncé has recently been so "impressed by the summer wave of Girl Power" that she now believes it may be the right time to act.

The "Survivor" singers have not released a studio album since 2004, but there have been hints that the three are still drawn to performing as a group as both Williams and Rowland performed with Beyoncé at Coachella last year and during her halftime show at the 2013 Super Bowl.

Beyoncé is pictured onstage during Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival Weekend 1 in Indio, California, April 14, 2018. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images