Raising Children with Corporal Punishment By James Smith With my head hung between my knees‚ I sat on my bed dreading the sound of my dad’s beat up‚ old pickup truck rumbling down the dirt road to our house. I was caught smoking cigarettes with my friend Chuck‚ and I sat waiting for the punishment that followed. At that time‚ I honestly wished Mom had dealt with me instead of Dad. Being the deviant child that I was‚ I knew what was coming. First‚ I’d get the lecture from Mom as Dad would
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Target Children? Have you ever been in an isle of a store and heard‚ but mom I really want this I saw it on television? This is a product of advertising. Since the late 1980’s children have emerged as a key demographic to marketers. Advertisements selling everything from the latest video game to the newest automobile are now targeted to the youth of our world. Children have buying power that sways their parents’ purchases‚ and they are the future consumer. Marketing to children is creating
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“Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness‚ . . .[and] to teach them to love and serve one another” (The Family: A Proclamation to the World‚ ¶ 6). This statement by The Proclamation proclaimed to the world of the responsibility parent have for their children – to teach them right from wrong. In today’s world less and less parents are the principal caregiver and teacher in a child’s life. The Proclamation firmly places this responsibility squarely on the heads of
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child ranging in severity from a slap to a spanking ("Merriam-Webster‚" 2011). Currently corporal punishment is legal in nineteen U.S. States (De Nies‚ 2012). The moral and ethical dilemmas of corporal punishment in schools have been a long going debate. Should corporal punishment be banned in schools? Many feel it should be and consider it a form of physical abuse; while others feel it is instrumental and necessary in the successful discipline of children. Both sides make valid points to this argument
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texts. “The Arabian Nights” In Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children‚ the narrator repeatedly compares his own tales of his life to Scheherazade’s‚ and mentions that he can’t "count on having even a thousand nights and a night" (page 4) in which to tell them. The Arabian Nights‚ like Midnight’s Children is an example of what might be called a self-conscious text or a Metafiction: it is a story about telling a story. Midnight’s Children contains many metaphors about the process of writing and reading
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Here Dr. Dobson not only reinforces the importance of teaching children about God‚ but the significance of beginning early during the critical years. “Concepts of right and wrong as well as their view of God are formulated and solidified during this brief period of childhood in which children are most vulnerable to religious training” (Dobson‚ 1992). Throughout my childhood‚ my mother spoke of her faith in God and shared stories
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the line? How do you discipline your children? Do you think it’s okay to discipline them by spanking them? Parents use discipline to teach their children the difference between right and wrong. What is right and what is wrong? Ninety percent of parent thinks that the only way to deal with misbehaving children is to give them a smack. "The American Academy of Pediatricians say that spanking might actually do more harm than good"‚ meaning that the spanking will not correct the problems that the
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Punishment” Children are crying in the distance screaming for the pain to go away‚ bleeding on the floors and not a single soul is coming to their aid. How can parents let people other than themselves repeatedly strike their child on the hands or across the buttocks with a cane‚ stick‚ shoe or ruler‚ making them stand in the sun in hands up position‚ or making a student stand in the chair position along the wall‚ and injuries do occur; bruises are common‚ broken bones are not unusual. Children ’s deaths
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not only spanking your child but it is the effects that hitting your child can have. Studies have shown multiple outcomes of corporal punishment‚ some which have not resulted to be positive. There is so much behind disciplining a child stemming from emotions‚ force‚ and frequency. A child should not be disciplined to the severity where it will in turn affect them for the rest of their lives. Corporal punishment is severely damaging physically‚ mentally‚ emotionally‚ and socially to children and should
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regards to spanking has been used for hundreds of years in educational systems and in house holds and is still legal in all fifty states for parents to use in there household because it is an effective way to punish a child for wrong behavior. Even though in the last couple of decades this topic has been very controversial‚ many countries and educational systems have decided to outlawed corporal punishment because of the belief that it has created more and more violent behavior in children. But‚ there
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