Spanking
When your child becomes a terror and you have no way to control them, should you consider spanking them? You have tried everything from timeouts to taking the things they enjoy away and nothing is working. Can spanking a child have lasting effects on a child well into adulthood? Is a spanking a form of child abuse, some believe it is.
The reason for spanking a child is to correct a specific behavior. After spanking a child do you think the same behavior will be problematic in the future? In my opinion yes, the behavior will be a problem in the future. Why? All spanking a child does is stop the behavior immediately and there is no long-term affect. Yes, the spanking probably hurt depending on the age and size of the child, but for how long did it hurt for? At some point depending on the activity desired by the child he/she may conclude that a little bit of pain is worth it. Haven’t you ever decided that a little bit of pain is worth a specific activity? So how effective could a spanking really be?
Can a spanking get out of hand? Yes, the older your child gets the harder it will be to affect your child by spanking them. It is harder to inflict enough pain on a 12-year-old than it is on a 3-year-old to correct a certain behavior. At …show more content…
Well if a spanking ever turns into a fight between parent and child I think there is no question whether there are long term effects or not and the relationship could be damaged forever. In my opinion hitting a child to correct an action is no different than hitting your spouse to correct an action and most of us can agree that is wrong and shouldn’t be a way of life. Spanking a child has different effect because children all differ in personality and individualism. I believe that spanking a child could cause feelings of unworthiness and depression on at an early age. If someone hits you because of something you did, they didn’t like how does that make you
When your child becomes a terror and you have no way to control them, should you consider spanking them? You have tried everything from timeouts to taking the things they enjoy away and nothing is working. Can spanking a child have lasting effects on a child well into adulthood? Is a spanking a form of child abuse, some believe it is.
The reason for spanking a child is to correct a specific behavior. After spanking a child do you think the same behavior will be problematic in the future? In my opinion yes, the behavior will be a problem in the future. Why? All spanking a child does is stop the behavior immediately and there is no long-term affect. Yes, the spanking probably hurt depending on the age and size of the child, but for how long did it hurt for? At some point depending on the activity desired by the child he/she may conclude that a little bit of pain is worth it. Haven’t you ever decided that a little bit of pain is worth a specific activity? So how effective could a spanking really be?
Can a spanking get out of hand? Yes, the older your child gets the harder it will be to affect your child by spanking them. It is harder to inflict enough pain on a 12-year-old than it is on a 3-year-old to correct a certain behavior. At …show more content…
Well if a spanking ever turns into a fight between parent and child I think there is no question whether there are long term effects or not and the relationship could be damaged forever. In my opinion hitting a child to correct an action is no different than hitting your spouse to correct an action and most of us can agree that is wrong and shouldn’t be a way of life. Spanking a child has different effect because children all differ in personality and individualism. I believe that spanking a child could cause feelings of unworthiness and depression on at an early age. If someone hits you because of something you did, they didn’t like how does that make you