When a person grows up, they soon learn that as a young boy or girl, they did the strangest and nonsensible things. Children are naturally small, inexperienced, and lack discipline. Parents punish their children in order to raise them into competent members of society, but the argument over how a parent should go about doing so remains as a hot topic. Olga Khazan seeks to provide information for parents in “No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems”, her personal interview with Yale Professor, Alan Kazdin. Kazdin suggests that punishing children does not affect behavior at all, and parents should instead use positive reinforcement to change a kid’s behavior. Khazan uses a script-like structure to allow Kazdin to use his own dialogue to better explain
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Having a doctorate in clinical psychology, Kazdin currently works as a professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry at Yale University. He has over 600 articles, about 40 books in his name and having received a MERIT Awards as just a few of his many astounding feats as a professor (apa.org). Knowing him as such an outstanding and credible man, Khazan uses him to attract readers to the interview and therefore exposed to her. Kazdin expertly explains to the reader his findings and scientific facts in a way in which we can understand without difficulty. He uses examples and analogies, so the reader can form a better understanding of how humans think. To start out simple he’ll say, “Spanking is not a very effective strategy.”, but he doesn’t neglect to tell the reader why, “It does not teach children new behaviors or what to do in place of the problem behavior.” (apa.org). He also uses another situation to compare the actions of smokers and children with bad behaviors. “What?! Smoking is bad for me, why didn’t you tell me?” (Khazan p.16) He constantly gives examples after his answers, so the reader can understand his thoughts and ultimately get something tangible out of all his answers. None of those examples are subjective however. He relays objective information from his experiences in dealing with problem children
Having a doctorate in clinical psychology, Kazdin currently works as a professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry at Yale University. He has over 600 articles, about 40 books in his name and having received a MERIT Awards as just a few of his many astounding feats as a professor (apa.org). Knowing him as such an outstanding and credible man, Khazan uses him to attract readers to the interview and therefore exposed to her. Kazdin expertly explains to the reader his findings and scientific facts in a way in which we can understand without difficulty. He uses examples and analogies, so the reader can form a better understanding of how humans think. To start out simple he’ll say, “Spanking is not a very effective strategy.”, but he doesn’t neglect to tell the reader why, “It does not teach children new behaviors or what to do in place of the problem behavior.” (apa.org). He also uses another situation to compare the actions of smokers and children with bad behaviors. “What?! Smoking is bad for me, why didn’t you tell me?” (Khazan p.16) He constantly gives examples after his answers, so the reader can understand his thoughts and ultimately get something tangible out of all his answers. None of those examples are subjective however. He relays objective information from his experiences in dealing with problem children