Effects Of Conditional Spanking On Children

A child is like an empty canvas waiting to be painted with faith, humor, love and optimism. Parents are expected to raise their children by recognizing their good behaviors & qualities and also by respecting their individuality. As children develop, they undergo numerous experiences. These experiences draft their general nature and attitude towards life. Their childhood experiences help them in acquisition oflife skills, & attitude, experience in nature and development of interpersonal skills. In addition, various experiences like pleasure, sorrow, anger and jealousy is also important in training them about life and relationship to others. Do they understand why they are being scolded or whacked? The answer is as simple as that, they might …show more content…
For example, expecting them to perform extremely well in their academics as well as extra-curricular activities disregarding what interests their child more. Lack of confidence in their children and also patience and tolerance often creates a problem. Parents need to adopt a graduated response yet firm and communicate with their children as frankly as they can, explaining things over and taking them into confidence. Threats should be an exception and physical punishment even rare. However, a study meta-analysis conducted by Larzelere and Kuhn (2005) found out that in 10 out of 13 studies, conditional spanking was more effective in reducing child noncompliance and anti-social behavior. They added that overly severe or predominant use of physical punishment "compared unfavorably with alternative disciplinary tactics". In short, there seems to be a threshold whereas some amount of scolding (physical spanking in this case) can be a beneficial tool in a parent's disciplinary toolkit, while excessive amounts of scolding (such as relying on spanking exclusively) can be …show more content…
Deater-Deckard and Dodge (1997) have suggested that the association between harsh parenting and child aggression depends on whether parental disciplinary actions are carried out in an emotionally controlled or an emotionally charged manner. Their findings implicate the emotional influence of harsh parenting on child aggression. Separately, other researchers have examined parental emotionality (e.g., Parke, Cassidy, Burks, Carson, &Boyum, 1992) as well as child emotional regulation (e.g., Eisenberg, Fabes, Guthrie, et al, 1996) and emotional security (Davies & Cummings, 1994). These findings suggest that,
Children’s emotion regulation is affected by their parents’ punitive emotions and, in turn, affects an array of social behaviors, including aggression. A study conducted on linking parent’s harsh behavior and a child’s emotional regulation including aggression by Chang et al. (2009)suggests that parental harshness, even if it does not meet a criterion of physical maltreatment, may have an impact on a child’s ability to regulate emotion and become aggressive and further advocates to change parent’s behavior for example banning