The new frontier in parenting is being lead mainly by the positive reinforcement movement. In this article “No Spanking, No-Time-Out, No Problem” Khazan uses research and personal experiences to persuade her audience to consider using applied behavior analysis to model children’s behavior. She tactfully outlines the issues with using physical discipline regarding children’s behavior verses positive reinforcement described below.
Khazan makes a bold proposition that discipline is ineffective when it comes to changing a child’s behavior. She steps outside the box and uses an interview with Kazdin to glean her information to source this article. Our secondary source, “Managing Child Behavior at Home”, describes the ABC’s outlining problematic
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They will have been taught conflict resolution, interpersonal communication, and emotional regulation from a young age. If they are able to put forth effort towards these skills to all aspects of life, as adults they have the potential to shape the future of humanity. Issues could be eliminated in a work place, violence in families would dwindle, and who knows what would happen to the dang government! However, this is not a main stream concept in modern parenting yet Khazan is able to high light the new frontier …show more content…
Khazan gracefully slides in with Kazdins’ statement that “punishment might make you feel better, but it won’t change the kid’s behavior” (para 2). The combination used by Khazan perfectly executed the goal to make parents refocus on how to change the way disciplinary situations are handled. She maintained this structure throughout the article and coupled it with a simple to complex, pattern arrangement to allow the readers to easily digest the
There is much controversy over the correct disciplinary actions for kids. If parents discipline their kids too little, they could turn out to be spoiled and entitled, but if they discipline them too much, the kids could become rebellious and act out more often. Experts do not have a specific answer as to which strategy is most effective when teaching a child right from wrong. Although, new studies have shown that numerous parents are very unknowledgable about how quickly their child develops, which can lead to disciplinary problems. In Belinda Luscombe’s article “Most Parents Who Spank Their Kids Say it Doesn’t Work” from June 8, 2016 Time Magazine, the author effectively uses logos for its appeal to reason, and pathos to further convey the information across as to why parents
Introduction It is obvious the position the author of the article "Spanking children isn’t abusing them" has on this point. The author makes two points about the decision Justin Trudeau made in order to keep a campaign promise. The first point is the approach or steps Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is giving in order to implement one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) recommendations and in the second point the author brings our attention to section 43 and makes a distinction between spanking (use of reasonable force) and Physical punishment where harsh punishment is inflicted to a child. In this paper I will attempt to make a distinction between reasonable force and beating a child and to explore Section 43 of the
Spanking is the most effective form of discipline when a child knows doing something is wrong, but the child does it anyway. A child who is properly disciplined through spanking is being taught how to control her or his impulses and how to deal with all types of authorities in future environments. Parents can control their child’s future
For this study, researchers looked at samples that were obtained from another study called the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study, which looked at a variety of families from twenty large US cities (Taylor, Manganello, Lee, Rice, 2010). In order for this study to work the researchers held two separate interviews. The first interview occurred at age three. During this time, the mothers that were being interviewed were asked to indicate their ages, ethnicity, education level, household income, religion, and their marital status. They were also asked to indicate how often they had spanked their child for misbehaving. When being asked questions about their child, the researchers chose to use a checklist that would allow the mothers to provide them with information about their child's behavior. The checklist used was a checklist known as the Child Behavior Checklist which asked various questions that ranged from how easily frustrated the child got, how demanding the child was, and how aggressive the child was towards other people and animals (Taylor et al., 2010).
In this article, the author expresses the effects that spanking your child as a form of punishment at the age earlier ages of toddlerhood such as to the effects it has on the child when he or she becomes older. Spanking is a very common form of punishment at this age and used frequently across the United States as well as other countries. Many parents do not understand the effects that spanking has on their children now and what effect it has on their future and that there are other forms of punishment that can leave the same impact but cause less emotional and physical damage.
Previously, I had gained some of my knowledge of parenting strategies and styles from family and other classes I have taken in the family and child studies department. Over the course of this semester, I have been introduced to even more parenting strategies, theories, and discipline strategies that I believe would be effective in parenting. Reading the textbook, and the in class discussions have given me a deeper insight to what the ideas and the positive outcomes are using strategies that have been backed up by research.
How to Use Positive Reinforcement to Address Child Behavior Problems - Ways to Effectively Promote Good Behavior By Amy Morin
Throughout the decades, parenting has evolved resulting in altered child rearing experiences for adults. It has changed from the 1920s, when children had to work no matter where they lived, to now where you can't discipline your kid and society decides what is right. Punishing your child became customary over time, but today physical punishment is highly frowned upon. Looking into each of the decades since 1920, family life has been focused on the child and influenced by community expectations.
Finally, we need to know more about the personal resources of parents that can lessen the incidence of spanking. It is found that spanking sharply decreases as the parent ages. Despite ideological motivations, parents can and should be trained to understand alternative strategies of discipline (Day 93).
In today’s society, it seems like all parents have their own ways of raising a child. For example, when correcting a child some parents believe the child should be spanked, while other parents believe in just telling the child not to do it again. According to Emily Hughes of the Developmental Psychology Program at Vanderbilt “every parent child relationship is different, so there is not one sure fire way to go about parenting” (Hughes, 2013). A major difference in today’s parenting methods is whether or not children should have to complete chores around the house and if any, what their compensation should be.
At this stage, the child’s behaviour is also associated with Bronfenbrenner’s “bi-directional influences” (Paquette & Ryan 2015). For example, the parents may affect child’s behaviour and beliefs; however, the child’s behaviour also affects the belief and behaviour of her parents. Curriculum, teaching strategies and resources play main role in addressing children’s behaviour in learning environment (Conway, 2009). Implementing the appropriate strategies and developing positive relationship between educator, parents and other significant adult is very important for the child to understand a sense of belonging, identity and able to recognize herself as significant and valued (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2014). Proactive and Reactive strategies can be utilized in guiding the child’s behaviour. The reactive approaches can be implemented after the child’s inappropriate behaviour that helps her to understand about ‘punishments’ and endeavor to stop her inappropriate behaviour (Conway, 2009). For example, “if you punch him
In the column “Spare the Rod, Spoil the Parenting”, Leonard Pitts Jr. asserts that most of kids are spoiled. Pitts restates in his column that some form of corporal punishment, such as open-handed swats on the backside, arm or legs, does not leave a child scarred for life. This was found in a study done by Dr. Diana Baumrind, a psychologist from he university of California. Pitts finds it offensive when a child that has been spanked is compared with a child that has been scalded or punched. Arguing with a five year old does wonders for the self-esteem of the child but it kills the self-esteem of the adult and could cause insanity, declares Pitts. Children now a day have too much sense of entitlement and keeps one wondering w...
If a child is chastised by smacking in a loving environment where the majority of the time the child is shown that they are valued and loved then the occasional smack will not harm their development. Neither smacking an adult is never acceptable, so nor should hitting a child be. Research has confirmed that smacking children teaches them to use acts of aggression and ferocity to solve their problems. It is wrong to teach children that problems can only be solved using violence, parents should portray their children that dispute can be solved without violence in a positive way as well. As we all know that children are more likely to follow their parent’s actions (Alderson, 2008). Therefore studies shows that it is morally wrong to smack a child, things are beginning to change to protect children. In the UK, parents are allowed to smack their children if it constitutes "reasonable chastisement and does not leave a serious mark," but experts continue to call for the practice to be banned outright. Other problems with smacking children are the fact that children who are smacked have lower self-esteem than those who are not smacked. Therefore these children often develop resentments towards their parents and get angry with them and sometimes seek revenge. Smacked children change their behavior out of fear of pain while non-smacked children learn to change their behavior on the basis of right and wrong and eventually need less parental help. Following are the forms of
Blackham, G.J., & Silberman, A. (1971). Modification of Child Behaviour. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc.
For instance, parents need to feel in control and see their form of discipline is taking effect that exact moment. However, if adults focus on results rather than addressing the issue, they are ultimately setting their children up for failure. “Punishment usually stops misbehavior immediately, however, the long-term results are negative because we are often fooled by immediate results” (Nelson, 13). Furthermore, this could be the reason why punishment is so popular amongst parents because it’s almost immediate response to misbehavior and the authoritative power it holds. According to Nelson, punishment is used by adults because it’s easier, they know how to punish, or do not know what else to do. (22). As a society, people usually take the easiest alternative to accomplish a task but it may not always be the better, smarter, or more efficient alternative. Furthermore, when people do not know what to do, they stick to what they do know. However, parents need to think of the long-term consequences and take the time, effort and skills to use effective discipline. (22).