Haila Jones To Spank or not to Spank As parents we use discipline to teach our children the difference between the right thing and the wrong thing to do. It is the parent’s choice what type they would like to use. There are several, different types of parental styles starting with: authoritarian , overly permissive , authoritative, and spanking (corporal punishment). There are different parenting styles depending on your culture as well. I believe that there is no right or wrong way to discipline a child, but there is a right and wrong way to behave.
But according to the Critique of Anti-Spanking Study, found in Assertive Discipline, "experts do not all agree that spanking is harmful and some believe that mild spanking is a useful form of discipline" (Canter). Also the same study said "72% of people surveyed still find it acceptable to punish a child by spanking them" (Canter). These are very different conclusions than the one found by the other doctors and people asked above. Bringing the reader to the conclusion that all discipline is a form of opinion. Most opinions still lean toward spanking being a form of abuse and that spanking a child is totally unacceptable because striking a young child will not actually teach them to be good.
However, there were a few individuals who disagreed with the idea of physical punishment and promoted a more nurturing approach. In today’s research it has come to be believed that physical punishment, even its smallest forms, can have harmful and negative effects. Today spanking is becoming more a thing of the past and time-outs or other e, such as reasoning with a child, are becoming the major parenting practice. In the past many individuals believed that you could not reason with children because they lacked the mental capacity. Physical punishment was the only way to get your point across.
It can cause confusion, which can then lead to stress, which can then result in aggressive behavior from the child. Spanking is a form of punishment which typically involves the punisher (usually an adult) striking the person that is being punished (usually a child) either with their hand, a belt, or some other instrument. Spanking is commonly used in situations where adults want the child to immediately stop whatever it is they’re doing wrong, which is why some people would consider spanking to be a good thing. “Spare the rod, spoil the child” is a phrase I’ve heard at least a hundred times throughout my life. This phrase simply means if you don’t give the child a spanking when they deserve it, you’re teaching them that their behavior is ok. A typical spanking (a couple swats with a hand) may be physically harmless; however, it can get out of hand.
Some people have very different opinions on child discipline including spanking. Some experts say spanking can be effective on a short-term basis in getting children to change any negative behaviors that prompted the spanking. Some states have even proposed outlawing spanking. Where do you draw the line on what is acceptable and what is not? There are many different ways to discipline a young child.
Inquiry- How Concerned Should We Be about Corporal Punishment as a Form of Discipline? Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell. The physical punishment of children has long been considered an acceptable form of correction and control. Indeed, many nations of the world still advocate the use of physical punishment, also known as corporal punishment (CP), as an effective way to discipline and consequently socialise children and young adults.
We have to instruct our kids to be all the more tolerating, yet with a specific end goal to do this, the instructor (folks) need to be additionally tolerating. Kids imitate what their guardians do, and on the off chance that we are demonstrating to them proper methodologies to be shut minded and less tolerating of different societies, then our youngsters will do simply that. We have to push to our kids at a youthful age how it is totally unsatisfactory to tease, or make somebody feel as though they are not as great on the grounds that they may seem distinctive. In the event that we instruct these lessons to our youngsters at a youthful age, the lessons will get to be long lasting ethics that our children will educate to others. The message will be passed on.
The article also states that some children need spanked to learn that bad behavior has consequences. Some people think that it is okay to spank your children at a younger age so that they do not get into the habit of doing had things as they get older. I will use this article in my research to show that parents have different views on spanking. Park, Alice. "The Long-Term Effects of Spanking."
I. Introduction A. Thesis Statement Is corporal punishment needed to discipline children? Body paragraph #1 - Topic Sentence #1 There are many ways to punish your children and corporal punishment just happens to be one of them. In today’s society, people are starting to realize the side effects of physical abuse. Supporting Evidence Corporal punishment is defined as the use of physical force causing pain, but not wounds as a means of discipline (“Educate, don,”1999).
Many educational writers took their cues from John Locke’s seminal Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), which was cited ubiquitously, even in the prefaces of children’s books. Locke famously argued against the physical punishment of children for their little transgressions, except in cases where a child evinced a “manifest Perverseness of the Will.” He suggested children would learn better and correct themselves when their behaviour was disciplined by a system of reward and shame, and while physical punishment was doubtless still widespread, most writers for and about children adopted Locke’s position. For some critics and historians, Locke’s system provides the child with the kind of autonomy and self-discipline needed to become a successful and socially responsible modern individual; others see in Locke’s method of child-rearing an almost insidious internalization of authority designed to produce docile and compliant subjects. Another political philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, was arguably just as influential as Locke on the various discourses of childhood in the latter part of the eighteenth century. His account in Émile (1762) of the “natural” education of the fictional titular character was controversial, considered even irreligious by some critics.