Letter to the editor (smacking kids) 2/3/17 Dear editor‚ I strongly believe a good old smack is the best option to correct your child’s behaviour. A sensible smack just can not possibly harm your child but they can benefit from it. In this article I will tell you why smacking is the best medicine to correct your child’s behaviour and also discipline them. As long as your child knows you care for them and love them I see no harm‚ it just teaches them a lesson. There’s a saying called "no pain
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Hello Dr. Love and classmates‚ In forum 4‚ Jodi Dressler responded to a discussion about whether or not spanking is an effective way to teach children right from wrong in her post titled "Spanking: A Useful Tool." In her post she states "I don’t see anything wrong with an occasional‚ well timed‚ swat on the backside. I feel that the key‚ though‚ is to explain to the child what they did wrong‚ how they need to make it right and balancing the spanking with lots of love." (Dressler) She then goes on
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Spanking is bad because when a kid gets spanked the kids’ relationships get affected.To start with kids experience mental problems and the kids get far away from their parents/family and other people.This means that the kids will get away from their family‚ meaning that they won’t socialize. Another reason‚ kids enter a depression and they think that their parents want to get rid of them.This means that kids change their attitude and the way they think.This states that kids/children change in their
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choose physical punishment to stop certain behavior. One drawback for this is that although the punishment stops bad behavior for a while‚ it doesn’t teach a child to change their behavior altogether. Discipline is really just teaching a child to choose good behaviors. If the child is not aware of a good behavior‚ they are most likely to return to the same bad behavior. The US Department of Health & Human services reports “142‚000 children are seriously injured from Corporal punishment every year in
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In todays society‚ spanking is a major controversial topic. Spanking is the act of striking a child’s buttocks with an open hand (Moninger). Only a short 38 years ago in 1974 the United States passed the Child Abuse and Treatment Act prior to this act spanking children was considered a “family matter” and was not something others questioned (CAPTA). A poll of 1‚000 readers on parents.com eighty-one percent said they had spanked their child at least once and twenty-two percent do so once a week or
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Article Analysis #1 Have you wondered what could harm your kids? There are many things that your kids do. What if you allowed your kids to do a harmful thing without knowing. Sometimes you are not the one who lets your kids do the harmful things but sometimes you are. In the article I read it was telling you of one harmfull thing particular and what you could do to help it. Although you might not think you could hurt your kids by letting them play sports you could. Pyka didn’t know that letting
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use corporal or capital punishment to deal with criminals. I associated corporal or capital punishment torture‚ serious bodily harm or death. Explaining the history of corporal and capital punishments well help a reader get a better understanding of the issues surrounding those types of punishment. Instead of killing a person or torturing them I believe banishment to be a more humane way to punish someone. Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans to various civilizations in the world use corporal punishment
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Spanking children brings bad influence Spanking children give them a negative influence. Children love to imitate‚ especially people whom they love and respect. We cannot expect that kids will always receive the correct information when you spank them; you are telling them spanking others is a correct behavior. You tell them why you are spanking them and what is right‚ but lots of bad affects are produced during innocent situations. Here is an example‚ a mother stopped spanking her child when she
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I recently read a dictionary’s definition of the verb ‘bully’ as “[to] use superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone)‚ typically to force him or her to do what one wants.” (MW Dict.) The article titled “Defining Bullying Down” by Emily Bazelon describes how the issue of bullying will never be solved if we continue to describe such a wide array of behaviors as bullying. Bazelon states that since it’s common to label everything from schoolyard teasing to harassment and intense violence
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As a child I received spankings for any of my misbehaviors. Now as a parent myself with a five- year- old son‚ I understand why my parents did the things they did. My son has had a few spankings in his life. Spanking a child is just fine with me as long as you spank them on their buttocks. Spanking can correct misbehavior and will not harm a child for life. There are a lot of pro’s and con’s to the spanking issue that might have a lot of people confused on this. Spanking is done by giving the child
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