Spanking

Last week, I went to a friend’s house while he was spanking his son. I felt so bad because he believes that spanking is an acceptable tool for disciplining a child. I saw it as an opportunity to master my critical thinking skills to reason with necessity. My belief is that spanking a child should not be the way to discipline a child. He does not need to spank or physically punish his child to get an understanding out. There are other ways to punish children than laying a hand or object on them. He told me that this kid never listen to me unless I spank Him. As a good critical thinker, I realized that I implied deductive reasoning on page 102 which has been used in the argument over capital punishment where it states that “capital punishment is not necessary as a deterrent to crime in our society.” The same way, spanking is not a required tool to help teach a lesson to the child. I also let him know that spanking is the sufficient and necessary condition that is contributing to his son bad behavior. I consider spanking abuse, because you are laying a hand on a child and it could cause a bruise. When children are young they still do not understand what is right to wrong and younger children like to explore. As a father, I tried to explain to him about punishing them by taking something away from them, or making them sit in the corner. He said that he was going to take my advice because my kids are well-behave. I’m pretty sure; he did because he called me last night to let me know that he has been seen very good result. Since spanking is not a required tool to help progress children, it should be abolished. I would definitely use reasoning with necessity again because the outcome is successful. With this valid argument, I convinced my friend to not use spanking as a discipline any longer.