Should Children Be Allowed To Spank Children

A person is walking through a mall. All of a sudden they see an object woosh by. But it is not an object, it is a child. As he tears through the building and across the big room, the mother hurries behind yelling and snatching at him trying to get him to stop. All the child does is screech, “NO!” The mother’s face turns red and she looks like she might blow a fuse. She grabs the child and wallops him on the behind. What did the spectator think when he saw this? When some people see a child being spanked they think of abuse, but others think of it as a form of discipline that the child rightfully deserves. For many years, spanking was seen as a normal form of punishment to teach your child to respect you. But now when you spank a child, smack
It can be effective in teaching them right from wrong. It can help a child learn that if they do something bad, there will be consequences. Then learning from the pain of the consequences to not do it again. Sandy Banks Comments about her past, “Looking back now, I think spankins of my youth taught me things that lectures and time-outs couldn’t.” (Banks, 2012, Pg. 3) Mary McLachlin also writes, “Children who get punished would ask themselves what they did to deserve it and try to correct the problem, rather than calling police or labeling parents as abusive, Guey said. That's what he did when he was punished or criticized, and he still believes in it.” (McLachlin, 2003, Pg. 4) Physical discipline can also be a strong response when trying to make kids stronger by teaching them discipline and life lessons. Teaching them that with actions, there are consequences. And sometimes you will have to endure through times because of the actions one chooses to act on. One can read about this in Dan Kindlonś book Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age. Dan Kindlon, who is a Harvard psychologist, says, ¨The body cannot learn to adapt to stress unless it experiences it. Indulged children are often less able to cope with stress because their parents have created an atmosphere where their whims are indulged, where they have always assumed... threat they're entitled and that life should be a bed of roses.¨ (Shand, 2013, Pg.2) Sometimes the pain from an experience is the thing a child needs to feel in order to know not to do it again. The pain they feel connects to the action they did, so every time they think about doing the action again, they do not because they can recall that pain. The Daily Toreador of Texas Tech University writes, ¨Learning from painful experiences is a function of aging. Through our childhood years we acquire bumps and bruises teaching us cautionary