Children are discipline to teach them what is right and wrong, but if it is done the incorrect way or if it is not consistent it can teach them they can do certain behaviors without being punished. In the lecture notes and in the book ineffective discipline is what can cause a child to have an aggressive behavior, have social issues and break the rules more often.
Coercive is a type of discipline. This type of discipline uses physical and verbal as a punishment style. The verbal it is when the parent or person of authorizes yells, makes the child feel ashamed, or makes offensive comments to the child. When a parent is physical in this type of discipline it means using physical behaviors to discipline the child such as spanking, grabbing, …show more content…
This is because what I could think is physical abuse could mean something different to another person. On a scale of 1-5 on spanking I am at a 2, this is because I grew seeing my cousins get spanked when they were misbehaving, which is also something that happened to me. Growing up seeing this made me think that it is socially acceptable to spank a child, making me think that when you become a parent and your child is misbehaving it is okay to spank. I think that it is okay to spank but not spank the child so hard you leave a mark, that is when it because physical abuse due to anger. I think that sometimes parents may confuse being firm with a child and hurting a child. I do not think that using physical punishment is the moral way to handle a child if they are misbehaving. Using physical punishment can cause the child to be aggressive and have trouble in school and social issues. I think that if the child is exposed to this and taught that it is okay they can use it in their parenting style and they could be more aggressive with their child. I do not think a parent should be allowed to hit their child and justify it by saying they are stressed or that they could not control