Physical punishments, such as, spanking, hitting, or smacking are strategies many parents may use on their children to teach them behaviors. In many cultures, many parents claim that spanking a child is considered acceptable way because it can induce them to learn. However in the United States, many families think that the idea of hitting children in order to force them to learn is unnecessary. In my point of view, hitting children is completely wrong because it may have several negative impacts on them behaviorally and socially. Using physical punishment on children may have many passive influences on their behavior.
Such kids could grow up in anger and result in more violence. The current happenings in society is perhaps a reflection of all the hurts inflicted at such a tender age. A common feature among the young is that they rarely forget. Many are able to remember worse experiences they went through while young. Spanking is however still widely used as a means to punish kids across the world.
Spanking and Aggression in Young Children Can spanking really lead to aggressive behavior in young children? In my opinion, it can and usually does. Have you ever gotten a spanking from a parent or adult, but then were told “hitting and slapping are not okay,” by that same adult? You probably felt confused or angry and asked them, “why is it ok for you to slap me, but it’s not okay for me to slap you?” This is one of a few reasons why I do not believe spanking is an effective form of punishment and can lead to aggressive behavior in children. It can cause confusion, which can then lead to stress, which can then result in aggressive behavior from the child.
Turley argued that violent toys offer advantages because they aid children in channelling their aggression and seen as a valuable vehicle to process violence. However he failed to address how this could help convince zero-tolerance parents who viewed violent toys as an encouragement of aggressive behaviours and violent attitude. Despite putting in reasonable effort in his claim of having a healthy dose of violence, the result would as undesirable if violence had been misinterpreted or mishandled such as in the case of the 1999 Columbine High School shootings. Turley should therefore be educating parents on guiding their children when playing with such violent toys and not exposing to children directly. While Turley provides sufficient amount of evidence from various professionals, the essence of the author’s original argument that violent toys should be seen as beneficial was lost in the midst of quoting the many opinions and research of other individuals.
In this essay I will be talking about how children are affected by television. Although many parents these days do not want their children to watch television, there are a lot of educational shows available today. Many parents may not want their children to watch modern television, and I would have to tell those parents that there are some shows out there these days that are very educational and they are aimed towards the young. Watching the educational cartoons can be very helpful for a child’s mind. There can be positive results emotionally, physically, and psychologically.
JONATHAN GRUPENACHER ESLL 26 HOLLY CROWER ESSAY 2 DRAFT 1 CHILDREN NEED TO PLAY, NOT COMPETE Competing between the ages of six and twelve can affect the physical and psychological development of a child and provide wrong thoughts to people. As Jessica Statsky mentions in “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” the expectation of always winning and the fear of being hurt can depress and discourage children. Also, competing can be considered counterproductive, since players are eliminated before being ready to enter into contest. Additionally, even though the risk of injury is very small, children are not yet physically prepared to crash into others. Finally, competing involves a lot of pressure, which unconsciously makes kids focus only on winning.
Imagine a kid solving a puzzle -which will help to develop his brain- instead of watching TV; also this kind of activities will keep him safe from violence. Ratings: I have seen a TV channel specifying violence ratings, I cannot recall the channel but every time I see it has violence on it I change the channel. We shouldn’t have to watch a program to see if it is violent. Sometime we start watching a program just to see if it appropriate or not to watch and then we realized that even it has violence we watched the entire TV show I think ratings will work just
Many children are being raised by a violent parent making their surrounding a living hell and believe violence is the only way to setting a conflict. The young teen wants attention like everyone else. Sometimes “Acting out” brings attention they desperately needs, like bullies bully children someone younger or quiet for attention or fighting with there peers. Researchers found that violence deaths are similaR School Violence
Social networks and websites have made it easier for kids to bully others anonymously and harshly. This ongoing bullying drives children to depression and self-harming themselves to get rid of the pain. The victims of bullying don’t realise that there are others out there that are in the same position and
If spanking shows no effect on my kids then I may start to take away their electronics because that is what society is so centered around today. If my kids are anything like me they will discover other things to do if their “toys” are taken away from them but with the added pain from spanking, kids will realize that its just not worth it. So I do believe spanking is a very effective was of punishing your kids if done correctly. I can see where parents frown upon spanking children because it can be see as abusing your kids but only if done incorrectly. A couple hits with a dry switch that only stings on impact will do the same effect if not more of one than using your hand.