Parenting Today Essay

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Parenting Today Victoria English 1301 Spring 2012 Parenting Today 1 Parenting today has become harder for our generation. There are many parenting styles to choose from but now a days we have to be cautious when deciding on how to raise and discipline our children. Back in the 1980's and the early 1990's, the majority of parents would spank their children if they acted out whether it was at school, home, church or store if you messed up you were spanked and that was that. Now some parents are afraid to spank their children in fear of the authorities becoming involved in a domestic situation. Parents back then were older with some sort of stability in the home and in this generation the parents that are raising our children are still children themselves. When figuring out what's going to work in my household many things run across my mind such as, “Am I going to be overbearing?” “Am I going to spank my kids?” “What about education?” These are all common questions we ask ourselves when deciding how to properly raise our children. Spanking has always been controversial in America but in other countries it is absolutely normal. When I was a child my parents never spanked me they chose an alternate form of punishment. My mother was and still is a very soft spoken person and didn't believe that spanking nor hitting a child for any reason was correct. She chose to talk to us and make sure we fully understood the problem, what caused it and what we could do to prevent it from happening again. Spanking releases anger from the parent and inflicting pain to the child for their actions or behaviors but what message are we sending to the children? The pain from the the parents hand, belt or switch is only temporary once the pain is gone the only message received is that you hit and hurt people when

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