Spanking

Since they are teenagers a spanking is not the best course of action. Teenagers will respond if you take away something of value to them. If you take away their cell phones and their computer for a week for the first offense, the likelihood of it happening again would most likely be…

Every parent has a different way to get their child to behave well or to do something right. One reward system that is widely used today is the token economy. Another popular way to control a child’s behavior is putting them in time-out. Is punishment better than a reinforcement? A psychologist has a lot to say about time-out. Reinforcements and time-outs are almost complete opposite of each other. Punishments try to get a behavior to not happen again. While reinforcements are trying to…

Having divorced parents is almost never an easy concept for a child to understand, and having a step parent can be even more challenging. When I first met my step father I had a hard time understanding if I was supposed to like my step father or not. My older brother, Justin, always made it apparent that Chip, my step father, somehow managed to destroy our family, so my sister and I thought that was the case. My biological father first left our family when my sister, Erin, and I were only five…

In this class we have disused and learned about many different things that can affect children’s development and growth. There are many different things that can have many different affects one children, but the one that stuck out to me the most is the affects the abuse have on children. Some people may think that it does not affect kids in the long run. Some people think that it happens when children are young so they do not remember it. One person that I talked with said that children are…

By describing that “they underestimate the magnetic force field created by intimate sexual information”(Hymowitiz 235), Hymowitiz follows with how “Merkin published an essay in the New Yorker describing the erotic pleasure she found in spanking. Her sensational article hardly stalled her career” (235) to emphasize the terrifying consequence of self-exposure to the public. Hymowitiz’s emotionally loaded diction such as “media-driven age” and “watched by hordes of strangers who have only…

Many parents often use forms of physical punishment, such as spanking, to disciple children. In fact, a large percentage of Americans believe that it is sometimes necessary to spank a child (Clark, 2017). The act of “paddling” is even used as a disciplinary measure in many schools still today, as corporal punishment…

Katherine Ann Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” describes an older woman, Granny Weatherall, in bed suffering from a serious illness being taken care of by Doctor Harry- a man who she believes has no need to be here for she believes she is not sick. Being in denial that she is dying, she meanders in thought of what she wants to do tomorrow and recalls events in her life- including the jilting that took occurred when she was about to marry a man named George. She remembers at sixty she…

... you probably can't tell, but I'm living up to my title of Lord of the Sighs at the moment. Some of you might remember the SoulSilver Scrublocke back in, what was it, early June? Totally forgot to continue that. I decided to just scrap that project altogether and play one of my favorite Pokemon games thus far, Black, because I'm black, too. Genius jokes are genius. Now, for those who don't know what this is, allow me to explain. A Nuzlocke is basically a more advanced way to play the in-game…

RUNNING HEAD: CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND ITS EFFECTS ON CHILDREN Corporal Punishment and Its Effects on Children George Harbieh 20/8/2015 Outline Thesis statement: Anti-Social behaviors, health issues and psychological problems are three negative effects of the usage of corporal punishments in schools. I. One of the side effects brought by corporal punishment is the strong tendencies of kids to cause anti social behaviors. A. Bulling other classmates. B. Violating humans rights. C.…

were definitely good examples of what not to be in his eyes because no matter what he has always told me that he has strived to do the exact opposite of what they did to raise him when it came to raising his own kids. So he has been very against spankings or anytime of physical punishment and looks harshly upon verbal put downs and negative thoughts throughout my…