Discussing The Importance Of Discipline In The 1950's

Many years ago children were disciplined to teach them how to behave very differently from how they do it now. For a child to learn what is right and what is wrong they need to be taught through rewards and punishments. Children should be rewarded when they do something right and punished when they do something wrong or disrespectful. Teaching children right from wrong should is the most important responsibility as a parent and over the years it has slowed down. Parents in the past used different discipline techniques than we do now, they used to be more physical, verbal, and attention to their children.

In the 1950s, only 19 percent of mothers with small children worked outside the home, said Stephanie Coontz, a historian at The Evergreen State College in Washington (Basic Books, 2011). This means that 81 percent of mothers were in there house.By 2008 more than 60 percent of mothers of children six years and younger were working outside the house. Even though these number seem to make the mothers in the 1950s were “better” they were not. Parents spend more time with their children on average now than before. In the 1900’s parents were busy with things around the house and on the land, but with less to …show more content…
They think that their children should voice their opinion, and they should but in a polite manner. Sometimes when kids step out of line and talk back or throw a fit they blame it on there age. Justifying their children's behavior. Other parents think it is wrong to hit their child, Dr.Sears says “Spanking doesn’t work for the child, for the parents, or for society. Spanking does not promote good behavior, it creates a distance between parent and child, and it contributes to a violent society” (Sears pg.28). He explains that spanking ruins the relationship between the parent and the child. Talking through problems instead of hitting them, helps build the relationship through