The Fifth Discipline

“disciplinary” technique to correct a child’s behavior. For many decades, psychologists and parents have been battling about physical discipline and its detrimental effects on children specially kids between the ages between 3 to 6 years. This study is crucial because spanking children has become one of the most used techniques to punish young children as means of discipline, which is used by most parents in diverse ethnic group or parenting-style. As mentioned in the Corporal Punishment…

The Importance of Being on Time: Punctuality In the professional world, punctuality is a very important skill to have. Punctuality is defined as being able to complete a required task or fulfill an obligation before or at a previously designated time. Some examples of punctuality are being on time to class or turning in assignments on time. So what happens when you are not a punctual person? Well if you are always late to your job, never turn in your assignments on time and always…

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…

it has not changed, just revised. Mentioned in my readings was made of the Spartan method of child-rearing, and upon viewing “300,” the movie about Sparta’s legacy, truly opened my eyes as to how males and females were treated differently, but discipline nonetheless, was expected of…

Michael Foucault believes that modern society is a society of surveillance, and his predictions could not be more accurate. Through the intention of producing something as lighthearted as entertainment, we have relied on the panoptic order to secure this gaze. This essay will use Foucault’s theory of the ‘panoptic’ order to discuss the ways the, ‘Funniest Security Camera Moments of All Time’ from America’s Funniest Home Videos uses found footage comedies to define our modern day visual culture.…

Imagine you re having the worst morning of you 're life. Everything that could go wrong has, and to top it off, you have five minute until you are tardy for school. After a while of slow driving in the rain and hurried persistence on your part, your parent(s) finally pull(s) up to the school; you are late. You receive a tardy and now have detention even though being late wasn 't your fault. This is an unfair punishment for someone that is not responsible for when they arrive. Unfortunately,…

Parent’s always wondered what types of discipline can help their child’s mental and emotional health. Understanding the child’s temperament creates a special parent-child bond. Discipline is the way parents teach their child what type of behavior is appropriate and what is not appropriate. The word discipline brings to mind the punishment of a child; however, discipline does not stop once the childhood ends. Child discipline should be used by parents in the development of their child’s mental…

Compiled by Christina Rodriguez of the University of Utah, Parental Discipline and Abuse Potential Affects on Child Depression, Anxiety, and Attributions examines how the treatment of children varies across a broad spectrum of variables. These variables include age, gender, severity of punishment, ethnicity, family income, parental age, and size of family. The assessment of these variables are analyzed via three Attributional Style tests that assess how each independent variable interacts with…

Spanking has long been implemented as a form of discipline to correct misbehavior in children. As the proverb goes, “Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them”. While spanking, or more professionally referred to as corporal punishment, has stood as a tried and trusted means of discipline, controversy regarding its integrity, value, and effects has been brought to serious question; and really, this shouldn’t be terribly…

I interviewed Timothy Beatty who is the dad of my friend Jonathan. I chose him because he works in software engineering, but majored in marine biology while minoring in chemistry and computer science engineering. This intrigued me because in high school I took an oceanography class and fell in love with the study, I wanted to major in oceanography and minor in marine biology, but I figured engineering would be more economic. I still love engineering, so it is not something I’m doing just for the…